Originally Posted by Cheegum

Humans will do what humans do best: Adapt.

Originally Posted by TLK

Everything remains the same, only life expectancy changes, how the world be different. Few questions that come to my mind.

1. Would the life (of 20 years) be sufficient enough for human specie to be able survive for so many thousand (and maybe millions) of years?

If its average of 12 years of age before human hits puberty, means he/she would have only 8 years to mate and reproduce vs technically about 30-35 years available to us to mate an reproduce as of now.

is that period of 8 years good enough to reproduce so many humans for us to survive for that long.

2. Would we be striving to develop ourselves, go to schools and educate and then be ready to financially support our life.

Right now, it takes about 18 years of education (considering that we start learning at age of 5), means we hit 22-23 before we become a professional. If you have 20 years to live, I doubt if humans would be spending that amount of time to educate themselves.

3. Education would not be existing at the level anyways cause no one would have discovered, invented, theorized or researched upon anything. It takes an individual, years and years to ponder upon the mysteries of universe and the world around us to come up with any valuable conclusion. Those Sciences would not be in existence for anyone to go to school and learn them



What would be our life style then? You think we would still be living in modern cities with all the technologies around us or would be living in caves, just taking care of our basic needs of shelter, food and sex?

Originally Posted by decent_Felow

Nature is nvr biased nt even in a single case ... i dont agree with u TLK ...btw y u feel lik thss ?????

Originally Posted by Khumar

No i'm not saying gestation period would be 22 days. I'm saying instead of being for 9 months, it might shorten to 6, 7 or 8 months. Mice are tiny animals, and their offspring, much like a lot of other rodents and marsupial aren't fully developed. They develop after being born. Humans on the other hand we are assuming will still be giving birth to small human beings. Complete with everything needed for survival

Originally Posted by CuteGurl

people wld never waste time marrying each other if they were gona die in 20yrs lol

life wld have been better...to the point & focused!

Originally Posted by Snowdrop

^Or may be they'd haste to get married and have children.

Originally Posted by Cheegum

Humans will do what humans do best: Adapt.

Originally Posted by Dr. LuLworth

I believe in Evolution. So taking that into account, if the human life span was only 20 years, then the human brain and physical characteristics would evolve to cope with this shortened span. i.e., the average human would have a very hi IQ, and it would be logical to assume that our infants would be able to talk at a few months age, develop fully functional brains within a few years of life, and live normal adult lives by 10. Society would be different, but it would have to be dependent on how evolution breeds for necessity and for the right circumstances.

Originally Posted by Obama

TLK...........just ask a 19 year old this question!

see what they say..................