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Originally posted by Cloud9
Actually, this is not entirely accurate. The life expectancy was shorter overall, that is true. But that figure is heavily skewed by infant and child mortality. You'd be hard pressed in those times to find a family who hadn't had at least one stillbirth, or death of a child. If you could survive to adulthood, your chances of living to old age were greatly increased. So by the time your ancestors were able to marry, chances are they would live as long as the typical person today would.
I haven't given much thought to whether cheating behavior is instinctive, but using your reasoning, it wouldn't be.
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So you're saying that the short life expectantcy was due to the infant mortality rate? I have no problem with that. But what you're not undertstanding is that even if they made it past infancy they still wouldn't live that long past 25/30 thousands of year sago. If they made it out of infancy/early childhood, they usually died from some other unatural cause. If they made it to adulthood, they usually died from some sort of warfare. Give me an example and time period as to why you think they would live to be 70-80 yrs of age thousands of years ago. My early ancestors arent from Egypt or Rome, they were from northern Europe. They had a hard life. You ought to check out the writings by Tacitus. He was a Germanic but Roman. He wrote about viewing the peoples of Germania. Read up on some of his writings and maybe you'll see my reasoning and agree with it.
BTW- Lets try not to get off the topic I wanted to discuss.