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> If it was up to the evolution alone, we wouldn’t live past 50

What is the other factor pushing it up?



We’re probably just using the “overengineering” that the evolution put into us to account for much harsher living conditions that existed previously. I have no other explanation, in any case. That’s also why a lot of us are fat.


There used to be more age difference between husbands and wives. Men who outsmarted and out gunned the competition to live longer got to reproduce a lot more… evolution does select for men who reproduce more later.




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