Give two potential reasons, one biological and one cultural, that may have caused fertility rates to rise with the advent of farming and sedentism
What will be an ideal response?
Biological reasons would be the introduction of soft foods to infants at an earlier age, eliminating long-term breast-feeding, and ovulation suppression; two potential cultural reasons are (1) the rising value of labor, and (2) the rising value of using children as labor on farms and the high infant mortality rate that would have caused people to value children more and purposely increase reproduction.
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