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From: "P. J. Alling"
Subject: Re: OT -- Hiroshima
In the dark ages the average male lifespan was 30 years. Yet, a
blacksmith would live on average to be 75. Why?
If he lived to become a blacksmith, he'd survived childhood.
That's pretty much it, and it fits in with a discussion a short while back
about how statisitcs aren't necessarily to be believed.
What has happened over the past century or so is that childhood mortality
rates have fallen tremendously (thank modern medicine for that), not that
our lifespan has increased significantly.
William Robb
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