How Did Ancient Humans Keep Their Kids Alive

For most of human history, roughly half of all children born did not survive to adulthood. Not from rare disasters — from ordinary life. A fever. An infection. A bad summer. Every culture on Earth had to fight back against odds that would sound horrifying by today's standards, and they did it with swaddling, wet nursing, ancient inoculation techniques practiced centuries before Edward Jenner, herbal medicine, isolation, and sheer emotional endurance passed down through generations. In this video, we trace the real, overlapping strategies humans used to keep children alive before modern medicine existed — and how, in roughly 150 years, global child mortality dropped from nearly 50% to under 4%. #ancienthistory #humanhistory #evolution