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The wear on the teeth suggest that longevity more than quadrupled at that time...

Absolute nonsense. If the average life span had been 25 years, a figure which seems to be way too low, according to the authors the average longevity would then have jumped up to 100.

11 posted on 07/05/2004 7:09:27 PM PDT by curmudgeonII
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To: curmudgeonII
Absolute nonsense. If the average life span had been 25 years, a figure which seems to be way too low, according to the authors the average longevity would then have jumped up to 100.

No, the incidence of longevity quadrupled, not the average lifespan.
13 posted on 07/05/2004 7:20:37 PM PDT by Dysart
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Absolute nonsense. If the average life span had been 25 years, a figure which seems to be way too low, according to the authors the average longevity would then have jumped up to 100.

Yes, it seems unlikely to me too. I'm going to guess that what they meant to say was that the percentage of humans who lived to be old enough to be grandparents quadrupled (from some presumably small number).

30 posted on 05/19/2010 3:50:03 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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