Re:The heritability of fertility makes world population stab...
by bin0 on Friday July 05, 2019 @08:50AM
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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