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Only by means of statistics - they had so many children that it compensated for high mortality rates. As recently as in the early 20th century the fertility ra
by Tade0 3y ago
Only by means of statistics - they had so many children that it compensated for high mortality rates.
As recently as in the early 20th century the fertility rate required to sustain population numbers in Germany was over 2.5 - and that was well into the industrial era.
Before such obvious to us things like antibiotics or doctors washing hands it was likely much higher.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoSo you are saying it works? You just have to have 2.5 children.
- roywiggins 3y agoWell, that and survive yourself through said childbirths, which was (and indeed is) never guaranteed for approximately half of humanity. Childbirth is dangerous! Obviously, humans have always had more than enough children on average, but the burden of it is quite high.
- lostmsu 3y agoIt does, but the parent poster who lives in a van does not do it, and therefore he's not really surviving anything. And as the first reply to the van implied, he would not be boasting "spiritually" if he had to deal with children in his van.
- pixl97 3y agoEverything works as long as you discount survivorship bias.
- Tade0 3y agoThe species can survive this way. Individuals - not really.
- s1artibartfast 3y agoIf the species is also alive, that means individuals are alive.