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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I bet in pre-history it happened more often than not in humans, and within recorded history has likely happened more times than anyone would admit.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    eeeh our whole evolutionary niche is to be so social that we’ll form bonds with a literal rock, i can’t see the vast vast vast majority of mentally healthy humans managing to do it, more likely they’d try to gently throw the child away from the danger and sacrifice themselves.

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    • GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think that would be the general case with humans under these kinds of circumstances. For most of history, women had many more children on average than we see in most of the world today. It was expected that many wouldn’t live past three years old in much of known, recorded history. I can only imagine in circumstances even more primitive than what we know of, something like this wouldn’t be as unthinkable as you’re describing.

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    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Plenty of anecdotal stories of infant brothers and sisters not making it through hiding during the holocaust because of muffling their cries.

      I don’t care enough to ruin my day by validating a of them though.

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      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Okay, but I don’t think this was intentional suffocation of the kids. This seems much more as an attempt to get everyone to survive

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah. We evolved to survive as a group. Not as individuals.

      Kangaroos while they do sometimes form groups, are far far less social, and kids of dead parents aren’t adopted like what would happen in a human group.

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      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Kangaroos form two sorts of groups

        1. Like most herbivores, they have one male and many females in a mob (kangaroo equivalent to a herd)
        2. Males outside that mob form loose groups for defence and within that they fight to establish dominance and the top roo may challenge the male lead of a mob to take it over

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