For most of hominin history
A) our ancestors' reproductive capacity was much different from our ape cousins.
B) a woman gave birth every three or four years.
C) women gave birth every two years, then a few thousand years ago began to give birth every three or four years.
D) infant mortality rates were different than those of early farmers and some communities today.
E) had a relatively worse environmental record before the end of the Ice Age.

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For most of hominin history, women typically gave birth every three or four years, which is consistent with the natural spacing of births in hunter-gatherer societies due to factors like breastfeeding and resource availability.

For Most of Hominin History