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Zeebuss t1_j5koxla wrote

Reply to comment by mxjuno in Do other animals have dangerous pregnancies just like humans? by Level_Shift_7516

For humans, midwifery is one the oldest and most ubiquitous professions in history, we've been intervening in birth for as long as know anything about.

Animal birth as well, animal husbandry is at least as old as agricultural, but domestication was already well underway among pre-agricultural nomadic societies.

Neither of these practices of artificial selection and assisted birth are "a few generations" old. They are ancient and absolutely have had enough generations for significant adaptation to occur. Also human artificial selection can happen much faster than that.

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mxjuno t1_j5ky5qq wrote

I was actually going to include that caveat but I tried to keep it simple. There are so many generations of wisdom in midwifery, and I’m absolutely sure it has made a difference over the generations. I used midwives myself for my births. I wish I could find the article that refuted that our anatomy would’ve changed that much due to interventions that humans use and animals do not.

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