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wvbdmp • yesterday at 11:06 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

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uxhacker • yesterday at 11:46 PM

Food. In Arable societies children could be weened onto porridge or milk from cows. Food that hunter gatherers survived on is less digestible for babies.

So you would get higher population growth in Arable societies but not necessarily healthier.