Re:Harvard: The Effects of Noise on Health
by lr4444lr on Monday April 24, 2023 @04:59PM
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They lived an average of how long? Enough to have kids at age 18-20, and help their kids raise their own for 2-5 years when they reached that same age. Evolution didn't equip us to live much longer than that.
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Re:Harvard: The Effects of Noise on Health
by dragonwriter on Monday April 24, 2023 @05:10PM
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> They lived an average of how long?
If they made it to at least 15, then probably on average somewhere between the 40s and late 50s from estimates I’ve seen.
(1,000 generations being probably < 30kya; there appears to have been a fairly radical expandsion in lifespan around 30kya, before that most estimates I've seen would have adults, by thrbsame definition, averaging sonewhere in the mid-30s or so.)
Re:Harvard: The Effects of Noise on Health
by PuppyTailWags on Monday April 24, 2023 @05:12PM
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> Enough to have kids at age 18-20, and help their kids raise their own for 2-5 years when they reached that same age. Evolution didn't equip us to live much longer than that.
Huh? Humans can live upwards of 3 generations worth of humans. It's not uncommon for humans to remain functional enough to raise their grandchildren!