The guy stumbled upon 5 female elephants and a calf. Pretty sure any human would have been attacked, but yeah, who knows what's in their collective memory.
If I had a nickel for every time I pointed this out...
Pre-industrial life expectancy was so low because of high infant mortality. If you made it to 38 you were not that much more likely to die before 70 than you are now, precluding outside circumstances like war or plague.
Not always, usually it's an evolutionary arms race though. Recent paper I thought was really cool suggests the initial jump from single to multicellular happened because of a snowball Earth which changed the water temperature and therefore viscosity, making larger size equate to more efficient swimming.
The problem is that we offloaded "world leadership" to a bunch of ultra-rich sociopaths who only care about their own profit maximization. And they then made actual profit obsolete, since the only product they produce now is hype in the service of inflationary speculative assets. From a planetary perspective it looks like the human species is committing suicide.
Don't fall for the clickbait reporting here. Musk has a history of making comically exaggerated claims. There won't be a million satellites just like there wasn't a 4000 km/h train, self-driving tunnel network, intercontinental rocket transport or Mars colony.
If you add that these bullies were given high-paying blue collar jobs, cheap houses, and wives to abuse freely, it's no longer an analogy. The Trumpist boomers literally had this happen. When this system broke they reacted to it like the selfish, hateful idiots they are.
Common sense. See for example the work of Neil Postman.