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I agree, however this doesn't necessarily mean that average fertility will rise again. The environment could keep changing faster than the genes can adapt. Also

by ema 7y ago

I agree, however this doesn't necessarily mean that average fertility will rise again. The environment could keep changing faster than the genes can adapt. Also "desire to have children" might be difficult to encode in DNA so genetic adaptation to the availability of contraceptives might be really slow.

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im3w1l 7y ago
This is the strongest (only?) counterargument I've seen. I don't believe it will happen soon though. Politicians only do something when doing something is less controversial than doing nothing and that's pretty far off.