eli5 How did people survive if babies cried how they do?

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Im not sure if the title made sense but how babies cry to communicate, did they do that in the like prehistoricy times. Cause I refuse to believe that people who were surrounded by bears, moose, just aggressive/kill you quick wild life, lived with screaming babies around.
*Youre in a mudhut*
Husband- Oh my god theres a bear outside
Wife- What do we do
Baby- WAHHHHHHHH
Husband and Wife- :/

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Humans are *massively* communal. We make ants look like loners. Your baby, screams and all, would have been embedded in a group of mutual aid, support and security. Language, affinity, shared survival, harvesting and hunting, not to mention narratives, religions, histories, territorial feelings, familial bonds, compassion, friendships and loves all help to bond a human group together into an extremely serious proposition. This is human nature. And you want to go hunt their young? Jeez, good luck with that.

To get to your baby, then, a predator would have to go through you, your family, your friends and neighbours, and that’s a fearsome proposition. We are one of the most dangerous animals on earth, after all. So yeah, cry baby, cry! 😀

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