The Majority of People Never Reached 20

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In which John gets curious about when the median human being lived, and along the way learns something surprising about the human story.
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Most of the population data in this video comes from the Population Reference Bureau, especially this excellent article: https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many... That's also where I learned that life expectancy in Iron Age France was 10-12.

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