Re: CHAT: Religion, Philosophy & Politics
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 4, 2000, 10:08 |
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At 14:30 02.5.2000 +0200, Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:
>On afterthought, I think I got the figure of 30 years from an article
>about rain forest indians --- a less benign environment. (And there's
>the question whether 'your' lifespan and 'my' average life expectancy
>is the same thing: Is it calculated at birth or maturity, are
>accidents and illness factured out or not, and so on).
I read that the bad figures for average lifespan in former times are due
to infant mortality which pulled down the averages. If they managed to
survive infancy they were not much worse off than us.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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