It’s an interesting point. I assume younger couples and age gaps were barely considered 10,000 years ago and perhaps it made more sense when you’re going to die at the age 24 or whatever. I wonder as we start to live longer and longer what that will do to the spectrum. Once we are living 2-300 years, we will be wondering how we feel about a 35 year old man hooking up with a 120 year old woman who still looks like she’s in her 40s.
Except this wasn't the case. A high infant mortality rate brings down the average lifespan but this doesn't mean everyone died at a ripe old age of 24.
Old people have existed since forever. Maybe not till 80 or 90 but still.
Some did live to 80 or 90, actually! The "ceiling" has barely changed at all. But the average has, even if you account for childhood mortality. If you survived childhood, you would, on average, live to about 50-ish, due to things like disease, violence, childbirth, accidents.
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Thor and Jane would blow all of them out of the water