Longevity Among Hunter‐ Gatherers: A Cross‐Cultural Examination
By Michael Gurven, Hillard S. Kaplan. 2007
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Subfields: Aging, Demography, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
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- The evolution of senescence from a comparative perspective (2008, methodology): “Demographic analyses of human mortality patterns have used the Gompertz ageing model (Gavrilov & Gavrilova 1991; Wilson 1994; Gurven & Kaplan 2007), in which mortality rate ( m x ) increases exponentially as a function of age ( x ), according to m x = m 0 exp( γ X ).”
- Infant and child death in the human environment of evolutionary adaptation (2013, background): “Kung, Tsimane, Agta, Hiwi, Machi-guenga, and Aborigines), 65% of the child deaths were due to illness (again primarily GI and respiratory), 9.5% to congenital problems, 8% to accidents, and 17% to violence (Gurven & Kaplan, 2007).”
- The age of exploration and exploitation: Younger-looking leaders endorsed for change and older-looking leaders endorsed for stability (2014, background): “…in “premodern” populations the human body was adapted for approximately 7 decades of operation with an “average modal adult lifespan of about 72 years” (Gurven & Kaplan, 2007: 334) –which corresponds with the observed decline in crystallized intelligence and also exceeds the typical retirement age…”
- Knee osteoarthritis has doubled in prevalence since the mid-20th century (2017, background): “Thus, the prehistoric samples could not be included in regression models that used age and BMI as predictor variables, and although the modal age of adult death in living hunter-gatherers is 68–78 y old (41), we cannot reject the hypothesis that knee OA levels are lower among prehistoric individuals”