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Re:The heritability of fertility makes world population stab... by barry-cotter on Friday July 05, 2019 @08:29AM (#20362005)
It’s been 5,000 years since the dawn of agriculture. If multiple births were fertility increasing they’d be, if not normal, at least common in some groups. You don’t even get 1 in 3. Single births are clearly not being found wanting by the Blind Idiot God.
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Re:The heritability of fertility makes world population stab... by bin0 on Friday July 05, 2019 @08:50AM (#20362117)
Not necessarily. Mortality of mothers is higher in multiple births; maybe that's a counter-pressure (fewer children). Children do worse as well ([0], [1], [2]). Ladies are not built to carry more than one child, especially considering the size of our children, and agriculture has been such a blip on the evolutionary/anthropological timescale that we have not had time to evolve so significantly as to change our basic reproduction.

[0]: https://watermark.silverchair.com/151663.pdf?token=AQECAHi20...

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541191/

[2] https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/4/4/e004514

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