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> probably intersects with the falling popularity of monogamy this sounds like a bias looking for data to suit it birth rates generally decline as countries b
by micromacrofoot 3y ago
> probably intersects with the falling popularity of monogamy
this sounds like a bias looking for data to suit it
birth rates generally decline as countries become more developed, there are numerous suspected causes (not related to monogamy)... generally the rule of thumb is... as education and income go up, birth rates decline: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255510/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255510/
- biomcgary 3y agoMy use of intersect was not fully articulated, thus unclear. My focus is genetic, not sociological. That is, I'm not saying that the rate of monogamy and rate of reproduction are causing each other. Rather, the intersection that I have in mind is whether the two things would have synergistic impact on allele frequencies (i.e., demographic structure). In the extreme, if a population stops reproducing, sexual selection doesn't occur (genetically) even if all sort of interesting sociological phenomena occur.