To: blam
Yet the old ways didn’t seem to do too much for their longevity
3 posted on
09/09/2014 9:10:11 PM PDT by
aynrandfreak
(Being a Democrat means never having to say you're sorry)
To: aynrandfreak
“Yet the old ways didn’t seem to do too much for their longevity”
Off point.
To: aynrandfreak
There may have been other factors at work, don’t you think?
To: aynrandfreak
Well, things like polio, TB, and small pox would do in most folks today.
41 posted on
09/09/2014 10:01:56 PM PDT by
Vermont Lt
(Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
To: aynrandfreak
You know that there have always been people who lived 70 years and longer, right?
Two big problems in antiquity: women lived much shorter lives than men because of death in childbirth, and they had many more children, increasing their chances of dying. Second, infectious disease. Men who had good hygiene and nutrition could live long lives, even thousands of years ago.
47 posted on
09/09/2014 10:27:14 PM PDT by
FredZarguna
(His first name is 'Unarmed,' and his given middle name is 'Teenager.')
To: aynrandfreak
Chalk the longevity factor up under cosmic rays, bacteria, fleas and endless stupidity.
59 posted on
09/09/2014 11:09:12 PM PDT by
Prospero
(Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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