Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women over past 250k years

Re:Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women... by kaba0 on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:57AM (#34486516)

The Bible and plenty similarly old texts refers to marriage of such young women to usually older men, but even Romeo and Juliet is about 14 years olds.

Biological fertility as a baseline only slightly modified by social norms seems to be a good guess.

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Re:Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women... by yywwbbn on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:27AM (#34486957)

> Romeo and Juliet is about 14

And Juliet was considered way to young to marry (we don’t really know how old exactly Romeo was).

While mid-teens was acceptable age in many cultures to marry and have children by the 17th century that wasn’t really the case. e.g. the average age at first marriage for women was 24 in England in the 1600s

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Re:Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women... by stevezsa8 on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:39AM (#34487026)

Romeo and Juliet is fictional.

I mean sure, could count as "evidence" but you'd have to be aware of the strength of it.

Imagine in a 100 years time, the next civilisation finds some popular dvd and tries to draw conclusions from it.

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Re:Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women... by kaba0 on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:47AM (#34487059)

I just mentioned it as a much later example for early marriages, but my other example(s) wasn’t refuted.

Also, I think quite a lot can be reconstructed from even primitive drawings, let alone a whole dvd we know got popular and thus even more relevant for an age.

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Re:Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women... by stevezsa8 on Monday January 23, 2023 @09:31AM (#34489160)

The only "other example(s)" I could find from you was "The Bible". I (respectfully) avoided questioning it.

I do agree with you about getting information from even primitive drawings. I think we differ in our views about the degree and type of information we can get.

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Re:Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women... by fckgnad on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:41AM (#34490091)

bible is also fiction. I would agree with you but just to add that the bible is the same thing.

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Re:Study reveals average age at conception for men vs. women... by tanbog5 on Monday January 23, 2023 @05:31AM (#34487275)

Within the time-span of the study, I would argue both the Bible and Romeo and Juliet are effectively modern/contemporary events.

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