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Originally Posted by 89911
I've come to the conclusion that men were tougher back then. Much tougher. It's not a huge assumption to make. Most tasks were labor intensive and you had to participate to survive.
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That only means that the survivors were tougher. The fact that technology has made it easier to survive doesn't mean we are weaker, it just means the weak among us are still alive. Life expectancy of a newborn in 1850 was 38 years. The life expectancy of a newborn now is 75 years.