Author Question: Give two potential reasons, one biological and one cultural, that may have caused fertility rates to ... (Read 66 times)

joesmith1212 · **on:** Aug 11, 2018

Give two potential reasons, one biological and one cultural, that may have caused fertility rates to rise with the advent of farming and sedentism.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Cattle herding is the mainstay around which all of Kapauku Papuan society revolves.

a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false

josephsuarez · **Reply #1 on:** Aug 11, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Biological reasons would be the introduction of soft foods to infants at an earlier age, eliminating long-term breast-feeding, and ovulation suppression; two potential cultural reasons are (1) the rising value of labor, and (2) the rising value of using children as labor on farms and the high infant mortality rate that would have caused people to value children more and purposely increase reproduction.

Answer to Question 2

False