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your premise that contemporary family sizes are approximating those pre-antibiotics is easily falsifiable.
by jasonfarnon 3y ago
your premise that contemporary family sizes are approximating those pre-antibiotics is easily falsifiable.
- paulryanrogers 3y agoFamilies may have been larger and smaller in various centuries, though before widespread agriculture it was significantly lower than the post-antibiotics generations in the 20th century. Natives in North America for example were known to wait 4+ years between children because their nomadic lifestyle demanded they be able to walk before having another. Regardless, doubtful we'll go back to hunting-gathering or to women without equal rights, education, or contraception.