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Re:Many women struggle to breastfeed. Scientists are startin... by sandermvanvliet on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @03:48PM (#34810352)
Having a baby around I can tell you that as far as human evolution goes it’s good we don’t have natural enemies because we’d all be eaten by now.

Baby is tired: I shall make lots of noise so the predators will go away… right.

Eaten I tell you!

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Re:Many women struggle to breastfeed. Scientists are startin... by EForEndeavour on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:27PM (#34810810)
I can only assume since we're all here that the survival benefits of incredibly loud infant cries outweigh(ed) the risk of attracting predators. I'm no biologist, but I can imagine how the fact that babies cry promotes formation of close-knit social groups to help defend against predators in numbers.
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Re:Many women struggle to breastfeed. Scientists are startin... by egman_ekki on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @04:19PM (#34810726)
Having a small kid also got me wondering how chimps cope with the same problems. I mean they’re 98% similar to us, so the babies must go through very similar stages…
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