The average life span of the human population is steadily increasing and may reach 100 years long before the end of the twenty-first century.Much of this increase has been due to improvements in health care and nutrition.If, for some reason, these artificial methods of maintenance were no longer available, would the life span of the human population change? If so, how and why?
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