tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post1005387450570486075..comments2024-01-13T18:57:18.243-05:00Comments on Information Processing: Nasty, brutish and short?Steve Hsuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02428333897272913660noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-59178739675838212822013-05-08T00:02:21.092-04:002013-05-08T00:02:21.092-04:00Pandora's seed is one source. In the 15th c En...Pandora's seed is one source. In the 15th c English noblemen who lived to twenty could expect more than 50 years. Archeological evidence on the hg ag transition shows marked decline in health. Contemporary primitive peoples have life expectancy > 40 from what I've read. They die from infection and parasites.Steve might really be on the verge of becoming human if he realizes that the HughLygonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-11395334017647326422013-05-07T03:52:21.343-04:002013-05-07T03:52:21.343-04:00You may over estimates hunter gather lifespan. It ...You may over estimates hunter gather lifespan. It is likely in the more civilized parts of history lifespan was far greater than hunter gatherer, and the first source I found says the last 200 years are better, I'm guessing that better isn't uniform across countries, probably somewhere like England we can count from the agricultural revolution, probably less clear cut for some more remoteSimon Watersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-55592065729490710022013-05-06T21:20:41.437-04:002013-05-06T21:20:41.437-04:00My God how f---ing retarded.
Life expectancy at ...My God how f---ing retarded. <br /><br />Life expectancy at birth DECREASED with the advent of agriculture/civilization. So did height and teeth.<br /><br />ONLY in the last 100 years has life expectancy at birth in the "civilized" world surpassed that of the hunter gatherer.<br /><br />Hobbes was a MORON.HughLygonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5880610.post-75776036924160864862013-05-06T01:10:44.041-04:002013-05-06T01:10:44.041-04:00Sounds like a ridiculously weak study. No attentio...Sounds like a ridiculously weak study. No attention to alternative hypotheses on causation (improved nutrition looks much more likely), failure to follow the number of surviving descendants after more than one generation, nothing about genotypes actually discovered. Pathetic.5371noreply@blogger.com