(December 15, 2008 at 9:05 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Yeah. Before medicine we lived on average to the age of 25 I heard!
Actually, in Europe right after the rise of the Holy Roman empire, hygiene was quite good in the towns and the countryside. Life expectancy was reasonably high.
The average life span in the Middle Ages was indeed shorter than today but how much smaller is often exaggerated. Average life expectancy at birth was only 35. Many of the people born died while they were still children. Out of all people born between one third and one half died before the age of about 16. However if you could survive to your mid-teens you would probably live to your 50s or early 60s. Even in the Middle Ages some people did live to their 70s or 80s.
After the early middle ages where more and more people were drawn to the cities is where the misery started. Hygiene was a major problem with lack of fresh water and decent sewage. This was the breeding ground of course for epidemics like the plague. Those diseases were transported into the countryside and smaller towns by people trading in the cities.
(December 15, 2008 at 9:05 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Lol, its weird how none of these articles about human evolution are really even remotely correct it seemsI guess no one really knows? Is there any research at all that could make a more accurate prediction do you think? I certainly don't know of any.
No, because our evolution as you know is also dependent on the surroundings we find ourselves in at that time. So there is no way to accurately predict what we would look like 1 billion years from now.
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Leo van Miert
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Leo van Miert
Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
