More human births occur between 1 and 6 a.m. than at other times of day. Some prosimian species give birth by day, many Old and New World monkeys by night, while apes apparently have random birth hour. Human birth hour is probably still subject to selective pressures.
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Alison Jolly (1972) studied this question.
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