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[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 days ago (6 children)

wait, how did babies back in the day (~1000s years ago) survive?

[–] Absolute_Axoltl@feddit.uk 59 points 3 days ago
[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 3 days ago

By and large, they didn't

[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 days ago

You have 10 or 15 kids and three or four of them will tough it out enough to grow up. There's a reason the population exponentially exploded around the time antibiotics and vaccines were invented.

[–] Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

This species has been around for 250,000 years; for 249,800 of those years, about half of children died before the age of 5.

About half of all children died as children. Which of course means half of all humans who have ever lived, died as children.

(The source is really John Green's book, Everything is Tuberculosis, this is just an interview with the author where he quotes that.)

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago
[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

On breast milk