<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I thought violent death would also be a factor. From what little I've read on hunter-gatherers, I gathered (sorry, bad pun!) that they were much more prone to violence and murder rates were far higher amongst them.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> J. Stanton <js_exi@gnolls.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sun, April 3, 2011 8:57:05 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [ExI] Paleo lifespan (and eggs/avidin)<BR></FONT><BR>[snip]<BR><BR>Originally posted by Kelly Anderson:<BR>> Granted, the Hadza have tobacco, which traditional hunter gatherers<BR>> did not have to deal with, but this hardly sounds like a group that<BR>> lives to an average age of 70.<BR><BR>Again: "The average modal age of *** adult *** death for hunter-gatherers is 72 with a range of 68-78 years." Infant and child mortality pull the average down dramatically.<BR><BR>Keep in mind that natural selection has continued to operate
amongst the Hadza, selecting them for survival in their environment -- whereas 'civilized' humans haven't been selected for those skills for thousands of years. (If anything, we've been selected for docility in response to arbitrary authority.)<BR><BR>[snip]</DIV>
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