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From: beede@hubcap.UUCP (Mike Beede)
Newsgroups: sci.misc
Subject: Re: Dinosaurs killed by DAIDS?
Message-ID: <508@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Sep-87 19:49:45 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 25 19:49:45 1987
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in article <3913@ecsvax.UUCP>, dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) says:
> 
> 
> 70 or more.  A glance at the life spans of historical personages shows
> the "normal" life span of an adult to have been very little different
> from what we see today, at least among the upper classes able to live in
> decent dwellings and eat adequate food.

As Marshal McCloud would say, ``there yuh go.''  The people you refer to
were a small minority, as I understand it.  I don't think the previous
poster meant that given proper nutrition, people lived substanially shorter
lives, just that on the average adults died earlier (from whatever
environmental causes you care to specify).
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