Quem mentiu sobre a idade dos humanos antigos?

You always knew there were grandfathers back then — so why did you swallow the story that nobody lived past thirty? Everyone repeats the same number, like a reflex, under every caveman drawing. But this number didn't fall from the sky: someone pulled it down, and you can find out who. In this video: If nobody lived past thirty, who were the tribe's grandfathers? What number did this "thirty" hide all this time? Which bone witness lived for years without a tooth in their mouth? Why did science itself erase the old people from the report? How did a single skeleton distort the face of an entire species? What comfortable lie do we swallow without chewing? In the end, the number never spoke about when life ended — it always spoke about something else, and the culprit isn't what you imagine. Sources: Gurven & Kaplan — "Longevity Among Hunter-Gatherers", Population and Development Review (2007) Volk & Atkinson — "Infant and child death in the human environmental past", Evolution and Human Behavior (2013) Bocquet-Appel & Masset — critique of age estimators in paleodemography (1982) Marcellin Boule — reconstruction of the Old Man of La Chapelle (1911–1913); correction in Straus & Cave (1957) Trinkaus & Zimmerman — Shanidar 1, American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1982) Cohen & Armelagos — Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture (1984) Hawkes et al. — grandmother hypothesis, PNAS (1998) #ancienthumans #anthropology #prehistory #humanevolution #huntergatherers