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by VMG 696 days ago
Kids survival was actually pretty poor for most of human history. Probably why the families were much larger
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Yes, but that was less because of accidents and more about malnutrition or other health problems.
It was actually both. The accident rate was significantly higher, it was just dwarfed by the other health problems so it didn’t seem so bad in comparison