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Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: Math of human mortality (... by julian55 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:05AM (#16382918)
Why would we evolve to love any longer than we currently do? We obviously need to live long enough to breed (i.e. to about 40) and probably having reasonably healthy grandparents may be an advantage but I can't see why we would be evolving to live any longer than that.
Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: Math of human mortality (... by lqdc13 on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:19AM (#16382971)
It might be that people enjoy living without children for as long as possible in the current western economic/cultural climate.

This age might keep increasing because those who try too late won't reproduce. So it's passive selection for longevity.

Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: Math of human mortality (... by golergka on Thursday February 15, 2018 @05:24AM (#16382996)
I think it's passive selection for reproducing in your late teens or early twenties out of bad luck. Even a century ago, your wealth level had a tremendous impact on whether or not your prodigy will survive, so there was an evolutionary selection for social success; with modern welfare state, I don't think that there's any selection bias towards the wealthy.
Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: Math of human mortality (... by philwelch on Thursday February 15, 2018 @04:27PM (#16387789)
Or passive selection for not being part of an infertile and decadent culture.
Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: Math of human mortality (... by k__ on Thursday February 15, 2018 @06:31AM (#16383237)
Creating new humans is costly and risky.

Maybe immortal humans give you a better bang for the buck.

Re:Your body wasn’t built to last: Math of human mortality (... by MR4D on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:15PM (#16389583)
New humans replace those eliminated in accidents (immortality doesn’t).

New humans allow for changes in DNA to fit a changing environment (immortality doesn’t - hey, you get my drift)

Thinking of the people’s throughout history who shrunk to be smaller due to poor nutrition or unstable food source let’s the human race adapt pretty well to a whole host of issues. Immortality (unless it’s accompanied by some pretty impressive technology from the future) doesn’t.