• for: human life expectancy, life expectancy, life expectancy myth, life expectancy at birth, life expectancy - ancestors
• title: The life expectancy myth, and why many ancient humans lived long healthy lives
• comment
• new insight
  • life expectancy at birth skews our understanding of how the health and longevity of adults. -There is a false claim and belief that due to modern technologies, modern humans have lived far longer than our ancestors in the distant past.
  • In fact, child mortality rates play a major role in calculating life expectancy and this is what differs modernity from our ancestors.
  • Our distant ancestors did live to their 70s and 80s

• for: life expectancy, human life expectancy, life expectancy - myth, life expectancy at birth, life expectancy - ancestors
• paraphrase
• definition
  • What is commonly known as ‘average life expectancy’ is technically ‘life expectancy at birth’.
  • In other words, it is the average number of years that a newborn baby can expect to live in a given society at a given time.
  • But life expectancy at birth is an unhelpful statistic if the goal is to compare the health and longevity of adults.
  • That is because a major determinant of life expectancy at birth is the child mortality rate
    • which, in our ancient past, was extremely high, and this skews the life expectancy rate dramatically downward.

• Mary Harrington suggests that

  • a starting point for the transhuman age
  • was marked by
  • the introduction of the birth control pill

• comment

  • while that may mark the first time a technology has radically reshaped human physiology in such a direct way,
    • the spirit of transhumanism is inherent in our nature as innovating cognitive beings
    • in fact, I find the term "transhuman" self-contradictory and problematic
      • as our very nature as innovative beings means we are constantly reinventing and transcending our old behaviors

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