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WE LIVE LONGER THAN THE ANCIENTS

Professor Pearson has published a short note on “the changes of expectation of life in man during a period of ‘circa’ 2000 years.” The curve of expectation of life in England in 1871-80 is compared with a curve based on the ages at death of 141 Egyptian mummies, concerning whom these particulars are known. If the comparison is to be trusted, the improvement in modern times is most striking. That a man of 25 years old to-day lives on an average 15 more years than a man of the same age did 2000 years ago is evidence either that man is constitutionally fitter to survive to-day, or that he is mentally fitter, that is, as the “British Medical Journal” puts it, better able to. organise his civic and domestic surroundings.

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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1612, 21 January 1903, Page 37 (Supplement)

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WE LIVE LONGER THAN THE ANCIENTS New Zealand Mail, Issue 1612, 21 January 1903, Page 37 (Supplement)

WE LIVE LONGER THAN THE ANCIENTS New Zealand Mail, Issue 1612, 21 January 1903, Page 37 (Supplement)

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