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Pretty sure that “dead by 50 thing” includes all the infant mortality.
I bet he’s also using the stats from peak mortality of European late middle ages with urbanisation but no good sewers.
Shouldnt fire and cooking meat count as science and technology?
I wonder how the stats were in the stone age.
Me too. We have plenty of bones of people who lived into old age with signs of disability or having been crippled.
But the overall stats not only do I not know, but since we only have a relatively minor number of data points it’s hard to really say any of us will ever know.
What we have does tend to point to being better than a medieval city iirc, and I think the general consensus amongst anthropologists is that the transition to agriculture saw a decrease in life expectancy.
I’m a doctor. My job exists because nature hates you, and we can do better.
I have to hold my tongue when patients tell me they don’t want vaccines because they “want to do it naturally.” Fuck nature. Nature made polio, and polio paralyzes children. Nature can kiss my ass.
Nature also gives us clean air, water, climate, timber, soil, food, pollination, beautiful wilderness and wildlife. Maybe not all bad.
