Adultolescence: It’s the Beginning of a New Age

Here’s my latest Big Think interview — this time on longevity and the family.

From the transcript: “When we can live longer and healthier lives, there’s the question of what happens to many different areas of our lives. The family is one that’s super important. What happened the last time we doubled human life expectancy? Human life expectancy in 1850 in the United States was 43 years. Today it’s around 80 years. We’ve roughly doubled it already. And so the question is, is well what happened to family life during that time?”