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| ▲ | pfannkuchen 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Wasn’t puberty later back then too? Like people weren’t waiting around post puberty saving themselves for whatever, puberty just happened alongside full adult body maturation, not before as often happens today. |
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| ▲ | frankest 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Puberty even today has to do somewhat with body weight. You have to reach a certain level to get it. Malnutrition may have delayed it in prehistoric times. | |
| ▲ | micromacrofoot 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | actually the later puberty ages may have been a temporary side-effect of malnutrition common during industrialization, there's some evidence that hunter-gatherers (and even people during medieval times) had good access to animal protein, fats, and other necessary vitamins and minerals from plant life (nutrition plays a big role in puberty onset) |
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| ▲ | micromacrofoot 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Biologically this may simply be because it's safer to give birth when you're fully grown |
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| ▲ | lo_zamoyski 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That may be true, but I'm thinking of much of the ancient world. It would not have been unusual then. |
