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A com­mon his­tor­i­cal mis­con­cep­tion holds that, up till just a few cen­turies in the past, each­one died once they have been about 40. Actually, even in antiq­ui­ty, one might effectively make it to what could be con­sid­ered a sophisticated age right now — assum­ing one sur­vived the good mor­tal per­il of kid­hood, after which all…