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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

25, that is quite a historical extreme, isn't it?

In the wild, average live span was around 40 to 50 years. There's even studies about the evolutional reasons why we live longer than other primates/why we are the only hominide with grandparents.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sure, it is an extreme. As in my edit I stated: this is due to sanitation. It is all over the board throughout the 15th-18th century world because pandemics/diseases/epidemics came and went and sanitation was so low and medicine was so bad that people dropped like flies, and thus did the life expentency average.

In particular, my "25 year l.e." example was about 18th century France.