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To: cosmicforce who wrote (495030)	7/20/2022 8:46:40 PM
From: S. maltophilia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541401

There was a time when 7-8 offspring (and many were not able to achieve this) were necessary if one hoped to have enough survive to maintain the population and maybe have someone assist should one survive into old age (~50). Old habits get enshrined and die hard. ...For this community the estimates suggest that mortality at a young age was even higher than the average for modern-day hunter-gatherers: 30% died in their first year of life, and 56% did not survive to puberty.... ourworldindata.org