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Life span of our ancestors same as ours today

If they got past the dangers of childhood, our ancestors lived almost as long as we do today

03-Oct-2018

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Maximum human life span has not changed much despite advances in modern medicine.

Available historical records show that surviving childhood was the toughest.

Once childhood was passed our ancestors lived up to more than 60 years.

Pliny mentioned people who lived more than 100 years in 1st century in his writings.

Today, the average life expectancy is 72 years.

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Valentina Gazzaniga

Medical historian at Rome’s La Sapienza University

Walter Scheidel

Professor of Classics and History at Stanford.

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