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- Aug 2023
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- for: human life expectancy, life expectancy, life expectancy myth, life expectancy at birth, life expectancy - ancestors
- title: The life expectancy myth, and why many ancient humans lived long healthy lives
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- life expectancy at birth skews our understanding of how the health and longevity of adults. -There is a false claim and belief that due to modern technologies, modern humans have lived far longer than our ancestors in the distant past.
- In fact, child mortality rates play a major role in calculating life expectancy and this is what differs modernity from our ancestors.
- Our distant ancestors did live to their 70s and 80s
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What is commonly known as ‘average life expectancy’ is technically ‘life expectancy at birth’. In other words, it is the average number of years that a newborn baby can expect to live in a given society at a given time. But life expectancy at birth is an unhelpful statistic if the goal is to compare the health and longevity of adults. That is because a major determinant of life expectancy at birth is the child mortality rate which, in our ancient past, was extremely high, and this skews the life expectancy rate dramatically downward.
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- What is commonly known as ‘average life expectancy’ is technically ‘life expectancy at birth’.
- In other words, it is the average number of years that a newborn baby can expect to live in a given society at a given time.
- But life expectancy at birth is an unhelpful statistic if the goal is to compare the health and longevity of adults.
- That is because a major determinant of life expectancy at birth is the child mortality rate
- which, in our ancient past, was extremely high, and this skews the life expectancy rate dramatically downward.
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