Copyrighted Image? DMCA | "The industrial revolution and public health improvements were proximate reasons that more people lived longer," Stutz says. "If you dig further in the past, however, the data suggest that a critical threshold of political and economic organization set the stage 1,500 to 2,000 years ago, around the start of the Common Era. The resulting political-economic balance was the tipping point for economies of scale: It created a range of opportunities enabling more people to get resources, form successful families, and generate enough capital to transfer to the next generation." |




