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Re:What if we tolerated diseases? by lesiki on Friday May 12, 2023 @05:47AM (#35914004)
> We would soon die out as a race due to population decline as we are well below the required rate of replacement in a diseased population

Isn't there a strong correlation between birth rate & child mortality? Most rich societies have slowed down their birth rate in large part because you don't need 5 kids in order to ensure 1 makes it to adulthood.

If we tolerated disease, we would probably increase birth rates to compensate for the spike in child mortality.

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Re:What if we tolerated diseases? by HelloNurse on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:17AM (#35914211)
Conversely, increasing child mortality necessarily increases child care effort per adult child: a bad deal that can only be compensated by having children at a significantly younger age.
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