A big skull was not conducive to easy births, and thus a within - group pressure toward smaller heads was probably always present, as it still is in present - day humans, who have an unusually
high infant mortality rate due to big - headed babies.
We have a really
high infant mortality rate due to Asthma.
Not exact matches
Drop - side cribs should be avoided and
due to their
high infant mortality rate, they are actually banned by the U.S Consumer Product Safety Commission.
«For example, the majority of excess
infant mortality was
due to
higher mortality rates among non-Hispanic white
infants in Kentucky and Oklahoma,» explains Dr. Hirai.