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Early human populations followed a distinct survival curve characterized by high infant mortality
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Demographic and archaeological evidence from human hunter-gatherer and prehistoric populations consistently demonstrates a survival curve characterized by high infant and juvenile mortality.

Evidence for · 3
Favorable ecological circumstances promote life expectancy in chimpanzees similar to that of human hunter-gatherers
2017 · cited by 135
Paper [0] evaluates human hunter-gatherer survivorship patterns, which universally feature high infant and juvenile mortality.
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The claim is specific, empirical, and falsifiable. Papers [0], [4], and [7] all examine the demographic profiles, survivorship curves, and mortality rates of human foragers and prehistoric populations, which characteristically display high infant and juvenile mortality before leveling off. None of the retrieved papers refute this well-established evolutionary demography finding.

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Periodic catastrophes over human evolutionary history are necessary to explain the forager population paradox.
2019 · cited by 18
Paper [4] examines the demographic vital rates and periodic catastrophes necessary to maintain zero population growth across small-scale subsistence human populations.
Child development, physiological stress and survival expectancy in prehistoric fisher-hunter-gatherers from the Jabuticabeira II shell mound, South Coast of Brazil
2020 · cited by 14
Paper [7] links child morbidity and selective mortality around weaning age to premature death in a prehistoric fisher-hunter-gatherer population.
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first checked04 Aug 2026
judged → SUPPORTED · 8804 Aug 2026
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