The year is 8000. Humans are still the dominant species on the planet, which surprises no-one since every child knows that six millenia is but a heartbeat on evolutionary timescales and the idea that some celestial dictator might interfere is no longer taken seriously by anyone. read more
According to historical mortality levels from the Encyclopaedia of Population (2003), average life expectancy for prehistoric humans was estimated at just 20 – 35 years; in Sweden in the 1750s it was 36 years; it hit 48 years by the 1900s in the USA; and in 2007 in Japan, average life expectancy was 83 years. read more