• KredeSeraf@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah. If you made it past 10 or so you’d probably live to at least 50, with 60-70 not being common but also far from rare. All those dying kids and babies really bring down the average.

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      1 year ago

      Family having like 13 kids, only 5 maybe making it to teen age, daughter dies in childbirth, 4 kids to 50 type beat.

      Population graph after penicillin is very telling