Claims / C-PGANE2QHMT
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Farming did not make childhood deadlier
The claim
Farming did not make childhood deadlier: foragers and pre-modern farming civilizations alike lost close to half their children before adulthood.
Harari (ch5, 172) says child mortality soared with farming. Volk and Atkinson 2013 compile 18 forager societies (mean death before ~15 of 48.8%) and 43 historical civilizations (46.2%): no rise. Caveats: forager data are modern proxies in marginal lands; historical series are floors. Kept as a correction so the 'fraud' thesis enters the KB only with its adult-health leg (C-BFMDBMH3BS).
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Evidence 1 passage
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child mortality soared. In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching 20.
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