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Just a friendly reminder that correlation != causation. Personally, I would bet that what's happening here is that healthier individuals choose to have more chi
by toasterlovin 9y ago
Just a friendly reminder that correlation != causation. Personally, I would bet that what's happening here is that healthier individuals choose to have more children, rather than that having more children increases life span.
- BurningFrog 9y agoAlmost. An evolutionary theory based guess is that healthy long lived individuals are more attractive in the mating arena and therefore have more children.
- toasterlovin 9y agoI think the Amish get married young and then stay married for life, so not sure if attractiveness plays a factor (since more or less everybody gets a mate).