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Civilization has the cure of which civilization is the cause.

If you select people who avoid the ills of modern diet and inactivity, while enjoying modern medicine, you may get a different curve.

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You also get unreliable age reporting. At least in some of the supposedly long-lived villages outside of civilization (lika Hunza), it has been shown that when westerners come their and try to study people's age - what they get in response is not the calendar age, but something akin to "social status". If you have a big family and many achievements, they say they are 80. If you haven't achieved that much yet - they call them 60.

Like leveling up in an RPG!

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