[Dr. Sivana]

Women of child-bearing age were starving and/or pregnant their entire lives up until very recently in human history. They usually died well before the age of 40 and often during one of their many pregnancies. Periods were the exception in a female’s life rather than the norm.

That is a gross generalization that does not apply to much of Europe. At very least you recognize that there were convents filled with non-pregnant, fertile women. I know of no Christian society that tolerated the killing of women for being barren or living past child-bearing years. The Christian rules regarding fasting would make no sense in a starving society. You should read more about medieval Europe.

[varyouga]

I consider 2000 years very recent in human history. Even 10,000 years is quite recent. Modern humans can directly match their genomes to DNA that is 50,000 years old but it is believed that our species existed 200,000 years ago.

For the great majority of our history, we had ‘society’ that was barely above the level of apes. The climate that humans and apes thrive in (warm and moist) ensured very few remains were left for us to study.