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Re:Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related... by bottled_poe on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:02AM (#26474422)
They also didn’t live to a ripe age.
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Re:Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related... by rhinoceraptor on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @09:25AM (#26476368)
That's a bit of a myth. Life expectancy was vastly less than it is now, but that is because of infant mortality, death in childbirth, lack of emergency medicine, etc. Those that survived all that lived about the same as today, about 70-80 years:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/25434609?seq=1

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Re:Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related... by marliechiller on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:29AM (#26474594)
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Re:Loss of myelin is one of the major factors of age-related... by bottled_poe on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @07:43AM (#26475454)
Sure, yet still somehow a stronger argument than the comment I was responding too.
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