Asked by Cassandra Hartley on Apr 29, 2024
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Give two potential reasons, one biological and one cultural, that may have caused fertility rates to rise with the advent of farming and sedentism.
Fertility Rates
The average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime within a specific population.
Sedentism
The practice of living in one place for a long time, as opposed to nomadic lifestyles which involve moving frequently.
- Apprehend the cultural and biological implications of the Neolithic Revolution on human societies, including alterations in the makeup of social structures and the rates of fertility.
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Leonardo FernandezApr 29, 2024
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Biological reasons would be the introduction of soft foods to infants at an earlier age, eliminating long-term breast-feeding, and ovulation suppression; two potential cultural reasons are (1) the rising value of labor, and (2) the rising value of using children as labor on farms and the high infant mortality rate that would have caused people to value children more and purposely increase reproduction.
Learning Objectives
- Apprehend the cultural and biological implications of the Neolithic Revolution on human societies, including alterations in the makeup of social structures and the rates of fertility.
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