Scientists claim 72 is the new 30

"Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, said progress in lowering the odds of death at all ages has been so rapid since 1900 that life expectancy has risen faster than it did in the previous 200 millennia since modern man began to evolve from hominid species."

Those primitive hunter gatherers, at age 30, had the same odds of dying as a modern Swedish or Japanese man would face at 72.

What happened in or around 1900 that so changed the world?

• Cars
• Roads
• Internal combustion engine
• The big companies that mass produce products
• Airplanes
• Tractor and bigger farms
• Modern Medicine 

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