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#604 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Story Of Human Friendship
Modern Wisdom
Eskimo's and the Mortality Rate
The reason men were prepared to let their friends drift away and sometimes come back but sometimes not would have been to do with perhaps big game hunting and the risks of warfare that if there is an attack Pete might not come back. The mortality rate historically was so high that a woman basically needed two husbands to see herself through her life in Eskimo's at high latitudes. It seems that the Eskimo's adjusted the sex ratio to ensure that a woman had available enough men to have two husbands. Female infanticide seems oh that's so much they're just but remember you know you're living on the edge of survival up there it seems grim to us but when your choice is you do some
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