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		eslachance on July 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Beyond Meat: Fake Meat So Good It Will Freak You O... According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy) which pulls its source for "Life expectancy variation over time" from Encyclopædia Britannica and other sources, life expectancy in the Neolithic was about 20 years old. And that does account for infant mortality, but not pre-natal mortality. Do you have a source for "long and robust lives"?

glenra on July 27, 2012 | [–]

> And that does account for infant mortality

Though it doesn't account for general childhood mortality or death during childbirth, both of which were pretty big factors.

mberning on July 27, 2012 | [–]

Here you go, should whet your appetite:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11817904

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