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So when you hear about the low rates of human survival to adulthood in the past most of that is disease, but some of it is that many humans form in ways that can naturally survive to birth but not that much further. These ways are the most famous of what we know as “birth defects” (much as miscarriages were often formed in ways viable for some gestational development but not to birth), and part of the transition from midwives to hospital birthing was about how this enabled easy follow-on care from the growing specialty of surgery for anatomical anomalies.
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kontextmaschine posted this So when you hear about the low rates of human survival to adulthood in the past most of that is disease, but some of it...