Teenage motherhood for the first child, sure. But women can continue having children into their 40s without significant difficulty. No guarantee that the firstborn will be the one who thrives relative to younger siblings particularly if the mother is an inexperienced or impoverished mom as a teenager.
So you really need to look at the median motherhood age, not the first opportunity of pregnancy.
But wouldn’t we have to factor in like… just 5 monthers ago life expectency was so low that teenage mothers was the norm.
Yeah, but life expectancy is the average, brought way down bcs of high child mortality rates, illnesses, and diet quality.
Im saying in the last 100k years there were probably always some 80+ year olds, but a very triangular population pyramid.
Teenage motherhood for the first child, sure. But women can continue having children into their 40s without significant difficulty. No guarantee that the firstborn will be the one who thrives relative to younger siblings particularly if the mother is an inexperienced or impoverished mom as a teenager.
So you really need to look at the median motherhood age, not the first opportunity of pregnancy.
Indeed, and there was high infant mortality when teenage motherhood was the norm as well.
I’ve always heard 5 was the average in a 100 year span. But still.
God damn… pretty sure humans can’t even successfully have children at 5,
Lmao, pretty sure they meant 5 mothers per 100 years is the norm across recorded history