[UA] Re: [UA][OT] UA unintenionally sexist? (LONG!)

[Timothy Ferguson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Liam Astley" <esp.horsepie at btinternet.com>

> that's interesting. well, kinda. i didn't know oestrogen sorted out your
> arteries. but i'd always assumed the women-live-longer thing was
biological
> and not a conspiracy by the Grand Cabal of Chicks

Lifespans simply aren't deterministically biological any more.  I'm a case
in point...  I was born a month premature.  Lacking modern techniques, I
would have died slightly after birth.  Even had I lived, given that my
eyesight is poor, in a state of nature I would have died before reaching
adulthood.   The spread of average lifespan is about 50 years now, comparing
the poorest countries to the richest.  Depending on how you count them,
that's 2-5 generations. (The 10 year generation was a Viking thing )




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