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Re:The Cognitive Upside to an Extended Adolescence by duaneb on Friday November 04, 2016 @08:04PM (#12877251)
Why is that time scale interesting to you as opposed to e.g. the last 150k years?
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Re:The Cognitive Upside to an Extended Adolescence by Retric on Friday November 04, 2016 @08:21PM (#12877341)
I don't think we can say anything meaningful about peoples behaviors 10k-150k years ago, and even approaching 10k quickly get's sketchy.

Humans have a long period between when it's possible to get pregnant and when it's safest to get pregnant. This may suggest prehistoric females tended to wait around a decade after puberty, or there was huge selective pressure and we still ended up like this.

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