Maybe the more difficult occur in areas where death in childbirth is normalized. Any birth canal works if you are ok with mom deaths. Plausible.
Death in childbirth is a massive negative in evolutionary terms (obviously)
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No. Not really. Not if the infant survives. Depends on how childcare duties are assigned, number of wives per man, etc.
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Women who have 1 child go extinct - death in childbirth is only behind infertility in being selected against The child only has half her genes and she doesn't have any more after she's dead
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Hmm, I wonder who leaves more surviving descendants - a living woman who has more than one child and is alive to feed and care for her young *or* a woman who dies while birthing her one child
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