
What was the age of first reproduction in the stone ages (forager—hunter gatherer) and before?
1 Expert Answer
Alex B. answered 11/15/20
PhD in Anthropology with 25 years’ experience in college teaching.
Sorry, don’t have references at my fingertips, but recall that caloric intake helps trigger puberty and 75,000 calories are needed to gestate a new human. Best guess is that puberty would have been unlikely for human females before being aged 16-18 prior to the Neolithic.
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