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That's an obvious false equivalence. While technically 'unnatural' refrigeration is not 'invasive and risky.'

The vast majority of pre-modern humans were likely starving or malnourished, and those problems are mostly solved in the modern era, thanks in part to refrigeration.

We don't really have good solutions for women trying to have children into their 40s, though I fully support the advancement of fertility technologies! But still the *best* advice is to have children when you're younger.




> The vast majority of pre-modern humans were likely starving or malnourished, and those problems are mostly solved in the modern era, thanks in part to refrigeration.

What makes you think that? I find it more likely that early hominids fared about as well as contemporary chimpanzees. Some starving, some being malnourished, but definitely not a vast majority.


If you look at the average height differences from pre-modern humans to today, I think it's fair to say that the majority of them were malnourished.

EDIT: And when I say 'pre-modern' humans I mean 'pre-modern era' as in before the industrial revolution and refrigeration, not before genetically/physiologically modern humans. It sounds like you understand me as saying ~200k years ago, rather than the ~200 years ago I intended.




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