Horn, John wrote:
On Behalf Of Nick Arnett
On 7/29/06, Brother John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
We ourselves used to be
an enormously fertile and prolific people. Our ascendancy over
the
Native Americans who were here before us is as much a factor of
the
difference in our relative birthrates as anything else.
Cite, please. Seems to me that the death rate among the
indigenous people had a whole lot more to do with it.
Jared Diamond talks about this in _Guns, Germs and Steal_. A more
agricultural society can sustain a higher birthrate than a nomadic
one. Also, Western European crops had many more calories per pound
than those the Native Americans gathered/cultivated.
This is what I was trying to say in another post. We fed ourselves
better, and reproduced more prolifically. So our culture replaced
theirs. It will happen to us if we stop reproducing. We will breed
ourselves right out of existence. Europe had been doing this far longer
than we have. We have only really started since the end of the baby boom.
John W. Redelfs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Since we are all children of the same Heavenly Father,
we really are all brothers and sisters." --Uncle Bob
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All my opinions are tentative pending further data. --JWR
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