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The Global Fertility Collapse
- 082349872349872 4y agoCompared with other domesticated animals, people always have been K-strategists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory#K-selection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory#K-selecti... (note also that there is a theory that population collapse —and ensuing wage growth— due to plague is what shocked medieval europe out of a highly static economical and political regime)