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Why is one baby the standard for pregnancy? Wouldn't two be replacement level? If mortality rates were high in history until recently, and many children provided more labor or more survivors in illness and war, wouldn't gene pools that were predisposed to multiples have eventually flourished?

by /u/MoistCurdyMaxiPad in /r/askscience

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