Comment by Retric
4 days ago
Scaling for lifespan they are having kids at ~14 which humans can do, but the average first time mother in the US is 27.5.
4 days ago
Scaling for lifespan they are having kids at ~14 which humans can do, but the average first time mother in the US is 27.5.
And something human beings used to do.
The average was significantly higher than 14 even in hunter gatherer societies. Women in studied hunter gather societies had their first kid around 19 with a mix of teens and early 20’s being common.
Biologically this may simply be because it's safer to give birth when you're fully grown
Wasn’t puberty later back then too? Like people weren’t waiting around post puberty saving themselves for whatever, puberty just happened alongside full adult body maturation, not before as often happens today.
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That may be true, but I'm thinking of much of the ancient world. It would not have been unusual then.