On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Michael Audette wrote:

>   HG's have children on average once every 3 years. With the advent of
> agriculture, women had children every 11 months.

According to Jared Diamond, the lower birth rate of HGs was
a result of economic necessity, implemented by means of
infanticide rather than by some physiological difference.  This
conclusion is supposedly based on studies of contemporary HGs.

Todd Moody
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