Thursday, February 21, 2008

Demographic Winter

Here.

A skeptical take, from Reason magazine, here. (People aren't having kids because they don't like them.)

Question: does the global downturn in birthrates call the premises of evolutionary psychology into question? It's said that in some countries 1 in 3 women is childless---how to explain this? Is it that the instincts are to mate and to nurture, rather than to reproduce per se? Dunno.

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