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		balsam on Jan 24, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: One Billion Heartbeats Not to be snarky, but what are the child mortality rates for a monkey or a hamster?

bgilroy26 on Jan 24, 2013 | [–]

This doesn't answer your question, but when we evolved to walk upright a significant level of risk was added to childbirth.

TeMPOraL on Jan 25, 2013 | [–]

My point is that life expectancy is a useless metric in this context as here we're interested in average life span of a person that survived childhood.

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