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8andahalfby11 t1_j126gur wrote

Yup. We're human. We're designed to walk no more than 10 miles a day on average, interact with a group of no more than 140 people, hunt and gather food, remember a general oral history, and die around age 40-something. Instead, we drive or ride over a hundred miles just on our daily commute, are expected to moderate a thousand social media friends, do high school calculus, and have people living into their hundreds. We're already pulling way, way, WAY more weight than we're designed to; the heat death of the universe is so far out of our hands, and not our problem. Best to focus on that circle of 140 people.

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dustysquareback t1_j12x8lw wrote

> die around age 40-something.

Probably not true at all. Many primitive humans lived long lives if they got through childhood. It was the high infant and child mortality that drove the average lifespan down.

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Mediocre-Oil2052 t1_j12y86a wrote

Seriously? Have you considered viral infections, contaminated food/water sources, and overall organ failure without the aid of even semi-modern medicine? Sorry if parts of that are redundant but sometimes it is nice to have several redundancies in place.

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