Dan M wrote:
>
...
> Look at the wealthiest countries in the world. With the exception of the
> US, they have fertility rates below replacement, some (like Japan, Germany
> and Italy) far below replacement.
>
> The countries with high fertility rates tend to be poorer. Thus, wealth is
> anti-correlated with the probability a person's gene marker will be seen in
> a given member of the Nth generation after one's own (which is a standard
> measure of sociobiological fitness).
...
Dan-- Sad to say, that remains to be seen. Once
wealth has been equalized across the world, then
it's reasonable to count numbers of descendants.
If the poorer countries wind up with huge population
crashes on the way to global equality, then having
fewer children who were better off financially
may turn out to have been a good reproductive
strategy. : (
---David
A Modest Proposal
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