<div class="gmail_quote">On 11 August 2011 11:48, BillK <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Current theory is that when pre-history humans were evolving they had<br>
a life expectancy of around 30 years, with 50 years being exceptional.<br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br>Once more, life expectancy has not much to do with lifespan, and has to do with the probability of your being killed at any time by predators, infections, hunger, accidents, lack of parental or elderly care, etc. Conversely, no matter how well you treat your cat, it is not going to live fifty years any way.<br>
<br>In fact, lifespan has been *shortened* until sometimes in XIX century in comparison with prehistory, and in spite of that cctuagenarians have always existed.<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>