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There's no particular reason everything in nature needs to fit a normal distribution; normal distributions are just one of many different types of naturally-occurring distributions. In some cases, the other types can be transformed (e.g. by logarithms) into a normal distribution (e.g. a log-normal distribution), in other cases not so much.
As to why it ...
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The histogram you show isn't a distribution of age-at-death for individuals, it's a distribution of life expectancies for different countries. The post you link takes data from a table on this page. Interpreting the histogram you posted, we see average life expectancy seems to hit a wall around 85. This does not mean that individual human life span is not ...
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