# Longevity in seventeenth-century U.S. and primitive societies

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**Created:** [February 20, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/longevity-in-seventeenth-century-u-s-and-primitive-societies/809178 "2018-02-20T06:27:33Z")\
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jtur88 writes:

\> So many people today inherit life-shortening genes, and we keep them alive until they can reproduce more issue with life-shortening  
\> genes.

Do you have any proof of this claim?

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