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> we had a substantial period of our evolutionary history where owning a house wasn't an option because houses didn't exist. The population density at the time
by amluto 1y ago
> we had a substantial period of our evolutionary history where owning a house wasn't an option because houses didn't exist.
The population density at the time was much, much, much lower than it is now.
- pjc50 1y agoExactly. We have a historical fertility rate that's much higher to go with our historical early fatality rare, which was much higher. Population grew gradually from the development of agriculture to the Industrial Revolution, being basically starvation-limited or disease-limited along the way, and then exploded.