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twelveparsnips t1_jed29l6 wrote

Because we evolved from animals that released millions of eggs in their lifetime and thousands at once. There is no evolutionary pressure for you to produce fewer eggs even though we evolved to produce very few offspring.

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mikeholczer t1_jed2nk2 wrote

Also for most of human evolution, life expectancy was much less than 50 years, so there was no evolutionary pressure to be fertile for longer.

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