How did child birth effect life of Hunters and Gatherers and in general, life before civilization? I imagine that death for both the mother and child must have been very high due to lack of developed medicine of any kind.
>>1068074
Childbirth was the number one killer of humans before the modern era (if you not feminist and count babies as humans.)
Still childbirth was mostly safe and the death rates for women were still lower then that of men. So its risks weren't that much higher then the general mortality of any period.
>>1068074
>lack of developed medicine
>implying
>>1068088
Babies are human if they have Y chromosome.
>>1068074
Weren't hunter-gatherers healthier on average than agricultural societies?
>>1068339
Depends on what you mean by "healthy". They were less likely to get disease, but they were also constantly on the edge of starvation
