infanticide

Other proposed causes include fungus, as you mentioned, and even infanticide.

Sure there is female infanticide and female genital mutilation but HEY, women in tech in the bay area get shafted too.

I can't tell whether you're snarkily agreeing with me or not, because female infanticide is in fact a significant problem in China.

There are some, especially in the religious right, that seem to commit a lot of mental energy to things they purport to hate, like sexual deviance and infanticide.

For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'.

"Using your "they have a word for it so it's common and blithely ignored" logic, you could say that "infanticide" happens all the time and is ignored in English-speaking countries simply because there's a word for it.

The main purpose of that policy is to encourage adoption over other alternatives, such as in earlier eras infanticide, and in more modern eras elective abortion.

OK, nobody disputes that they have better teeth than my circa 1800 ancestors did, but I very likely have better teeth than they do now, so who really wins here?> The big problem for them was carrying capacity, meaning you had to migrate, fight the tribe next door... or practice infanticide.

We've never once found plants which make anything nearly as good as penicillin, and there's no reason to expect that we ever will.> I doubt however they have the same life expectancy as we do!And they may well have to practice infanticide, and/or go on bloody campaigns to keep the population down low enough they don't starve.