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- 12 de Feb, 2024
Human lifespan has always been mostly the same, it's mostly infant and child mortality and other unnatural deaths that drives the average down in historical times. They didn't have medical intervention for a lot of the stuff we do now (but they were capable of a lot more than we think too).This is an incredibly cynical view of the world we evolved into. You're not specific about what time period you're thinking about, but Prehistory wasn't all dying young of dysentery. There are multiple credible examples of people surviving with deformities and disabling injuries in caveman times. We always took care of our most vulnerable. A "short" life may end at 40 but when you factor everything else in, yes, they used their bodies so hard that they were burnt. Like a construction worker who can't use his knees anymore at 38.
You're not wrong about the rest of it, but we evolved into a pretty sweet deal and fucked it up for ourselves.
How much your body is worn down also is largely genetic to my understanding. Things like arthritis and joints going bad are things that happen to a lot of people simply due to age and avoiding labor or lots of exercise won't save you (though injuring yourself through overexertion will still hurt you ofc).