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Bob Gilbreath's avatar

Also the songs of sailors - who coordinated work and kept spirits up by singing shanties.

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maryh10000's avatar

Where do you get that ancient elites had lower fertility. Polygamy is specifically so that elites could have more babies. And in fact, elite women had better access to wetnurses, so they could return to fertilty sooner. And had better nutrition. Low fertility being an elite thing is a modern notion, I think. You're right about infanticide being a way to reduce number of babies.

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