Sir, while it may be true that almost half died young, that doesn't mean "nobody live[d] past thirty." Modal life span for Homo sapiens is around 70 years. Infant mortality skews AVERAGE, not max life span. Science!
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The cartoon isn’t meant to be a thesis on human longevity, it’s a joke haha. Plus it’s not just “infant mortality” despite that being probably the single biggest factor (given the fragility of infants).
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Its not a joke. It is an ignorant attack on healthier lifestyles.
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It’s not an “attack” it’s a simple statement that the healthiest lifestyle doesn’t mean dick if you split your leg open and don’t have antibiotics to prevent blood poisoning.
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Medical science is why humans live longer now than ever before. Proper nutrition and exercise is great for adding a couple more years and improving quality of life, but that’s irrelevant if you don’t have things like surgical treatments for people with congenital heart defects
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The scary thing is how little money is going in to antibiotic research. If the WHO is right humans could lose access to modern medicine in the next 20 years. Imagine no surgery, no catheters inserting shunt, not even minor procedures without almost certain death from infection.
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Yes, both vaccines and antibiotics are woefully lacking in the funding department and this is of great concern to anyone paying attention.
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and here i was thinking infant mortality was the reason for the AVERAGE of 35
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there most definitely were people living past 35...
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Didn't Abraham live to something like 970? What more evidence do you need?
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Something other than a bible
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Why would a jealous god that WANTS to be praised create me without that gift?
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Some people have a rather peculiar idea of what "evidence" means.
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I'm guessing a few also fell off the edge of the earth, too. You know how kids were back then.
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This could also be why we domesticated cats, in order to limit them knocking stuff off the edge.

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If the GOP has their way we'll be going back to those Neolithic times.
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Really? That cartoon caption doesn't strike you as an incredibly "progressive" lifestyle?
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That cartoon definitely presents a realistic look into early human life and as such can be used to understand modern human life, thank u
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