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JasonPratt

#10095
March 04, 2016, 10:13:32 AM
If I recall correctly, the theory is that human lifespan first crashed when we moved from hunter/gatherer to agrarian, right?

Human cultures all over the world have traditions of people living a lot longer in the good old days. The Bible is the most famous example, but the writers of the Tanahk (Christian Old Testament) were actually pretty conservative when it came to just how old people used to live, compared to contemporary cultures around them talking about (what we would now call) pre-history.


...uh, I don't have a funny pic to go with that. I'll just refer back to Windy's cameo in the recent SMBC entry.  O:-)
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Tpek

#10096
March 04, 2016, 11:29:34 AM
Quote from: JasonPratt on March 04, 2016, 10:13:32 AM
If I recall correctly, the theory is that human lifespan first crashed when we moved from hunter/gatherer to agrarian, right?

Human cultures all over the world have traditions of people living a lot longer in the good old days. The Bible is the most famous example, but the writers of the Tanahk (Christian Old Testament) were actually pretty conservative when it came to just how old people used to live, compared to contemporary cultures around them talking about (what we would now call) pre-history.


...uh, I don't have a funny pic to go with that. I'll just refer back to Windy's cameo in the recent SMBC entry.  O:-)

I wouldn't exactly take the OT as a reliable source of how long people lived thousands of years ago :P
Also I was talking more like hundred of thousands of years ago.

mirth

#10097
March 04, 2016, 12:45:19 PM
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DoctorQuest

#10098
March 04, 2016, 01:29:52 PM
Quote from: mirth on March 04, 2016, 12:45:19 PM


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besilarius

#10099
March 05, 2016, 09:42:15 AM
Love the expressions.
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LongBlade

#10100
March 05, 2016, 10:18:46 AM
Quote from: besilarius on March 05, 2016, 09:42:15 AM
Love the expressions.

Yes, those are hilarious.
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

bayonetbrant

#10101
March 05, 2016, 07:50:07 PM
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Nefaro

#10102
March 05, 2016, 09:55:41 PM
Quote from: Ubercat on March 03, 2016, 04:04:17 PM
Quote from: Tpek on March 03, 2016, 11:29:38 AM
You do know this is scientifically false?
The average lifespan was actually greater than it still is today.

Only now in first world nations are we actually catching up to the lifespan of the early Homo-Sapien.

Huh? Could you elaborate on this?


I don't necessarily know about hard evidence regarding living longer. 

But I've read that the commonly tossed "average lifespan" regarding earlier periods is very misleading.  Due to far higher infant & child mortality rates skewing that average age down extremely far. 

Supposedly, once someone reached young adulthood, their lifespan was likely to be that of our modern ones.

People weren't dropping like flies as soon as they reached 30.  Quite the opposite.  If someone had survived into their 20s, then they generally had a long healthy life ahead of them, barring any of ye olde ultra-violence.

bayonetbrant

#10103
March 05, 2016, 10:01:32 PM
you know what they say - they wouldn't put up a sign if no one did it

The key to surviving this site is to not say something which ends up as someone's tag line - Steelgrave

"their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of 'rights'...and lost track of their duties. No nation, so constituted, can endure." Robert Heinlein, Starship Troopers

Airborne Rifles

#10104
March 06, 2016, 05:55:22 PM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on March 05, 2016, 10:01:32 PM
you know what they say - they wouldn't put up a sign if no one did it



8)

besilarius

#10105
March 06, 2016, 09:00:38 PM
Not easy being green.
"Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out until too late that he's been playing with two queens all along".  Terry Pratchett.

During filming of Airplane, Leslie Nielsen used a whoopee cushion to keep the cast off-balance. Hays said that Nielsen "played that thing like a maestro"

Tallulah Bankhead: "I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me."

"When all other trusts fail, turn to Flashman." — Abraham Lincoln.

"I have enjoyed very warm relations with my two husbands."
"With your eyes closed?"
"That helped."  Lauren Bacall

Master Chiefs are sneaky, dastardly, and snarky miscreants who thrive on the tears of Ensigns and belly dancers.   Admiral Gerry Bogan.

Barthheart

#10106
March 07, 2016, 08:49:01 AM


Right Capt. Darwin?  :D

mirth

#10107
March 07, 2016, 01:29:08 PM
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

DoctorQuest

#10108
March 07, 2016, 04:57:13 PM
^My Life on a Tee Shirt
"Everything you read on the internet is true." - Benjamin Franklin

"Zero-G and I feel fine....." - John Glenn

"I reject your reality and substitute my own." - Adam Savage, inventor of the alternative fact.

mirth

#10109
March 07, 2016, 05:34:04 PM
Mine too.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus
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