> pretty likely evolution selected for women who stopped getting pregnant once they neared the end of their lifespan
Would love to hear your proposed mechanism
Would love to hear your proposed mechanism
You could argue that it would be better if the genes considered these scenarios better and adapted. But genes are very crude, they can't encode for all those things, so instead they just do what is best in the typical scneario.
Additionally, in pre-industrial societies, i think that children become a net positive much quicker, so im not sure the resource calculation is quite as stark.