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Article: Bob Shields; Life - but not as we know it.(Features)
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- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- January 31, 1996
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I woke up on Monday morning to read that a Californian professor reckons we could soon all be living until we are 400.
It came as a bit of a shocker.
The way I feel when I wake up on Mondays, I imagine I'll be lucky to live until 4.00 ... in the afternoon.
But it seems Michael Rose, an egg-head in the field of evolutionary biology, is perfectly serious.
He points out that during the Stone Age, the average human life expectancy was 18.
Which is a bit of a bummer really.
Imagine dodging dinosaurs for 18 years - then ...