Wiploc
Veteran Member
[This comment is not appropriate to the humour thread either.]
It is true that life expectancy has risen chiefly on account of a huge drop in the infant mortality rate, but I doubt that many cave dwellers lived long enough to see their 45th or 50th birthday anniversary.
[still inappropriate]
Asimov, I think, mentioned that there used to be a greater difference between the average age and the oldest age. That is, old people were unusual, and seemed really old.
This could have helped give the impression that they were witches.