Fertility maintenance as a hypothesis explaining the sexual division of labor refers to the fact that:
a. if women are away from home hunting, they cannot engage in the sexual intercourse necessary for impregnation.
b. the prolonged physical activity of hunting and gathering is important to good health and maintaining fertility.
c. heavy and prolonged physical labor may cause hormonal changes that reduce fertility.
d. lactation is necessary for reproduction and heavy physical labor reduces the production of breast milk.
C
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a. 93 million b. 250 million c. 300 million d. 775 million e. 1 billion
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