Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDLT - June 2017
Is it cold in here?:
Hmm. Five thousand years is plenty of time for new pathogens to evolve especially with livestock as incubators.
One possibility is that humans were genetically engineered for maximum resistance to arbitrary and new pathogens -- but then evolution has been doing just that all along and today's humans may represent the best possible.
A small perverse otter:
--- Quote from: Thrudd on 11 Jun 2017, 04:25 ---Well the indirect evidence on the child health front is family size. Societies with a high mortality rate tended to have more children resulting in larger families. From what we have seen we can infer that with only one or two siblings that overall mortality is quite low. We also do not know how robust the base humans are with respect to disease and injury in comparison to our own.
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No.
In a society with high infant mortality, the number of *infants* is high. The number of children who survive to adulthood? Not so much.
LKR1009:
New comic is up!
I'm going to be sad when AG wraps up; I've enjoyed it. :(
LKR1009:
Re: infant mortality
"The infant mortality rate (IMR) is the number of deaths of infants under one year old per 1,000 live births," so we are on the same page.
BenRG:
New Comic Up
Okay... Now that is very much a strong Mass Effect allusion. The Praeses are like the Thorian? If so, then everyone is in more trouble than I imagined and it might be that Ardent and Gavia might be fully independent in thought for the first time in their lives.
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