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Re: what do you think of editorals regarding the environment?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 1 Jun 2001 00:11:47 GMT
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Christopher Weeks wrote:
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> > Tom, let me see if I understand your reasoning for suggesting the 90%
> > female infertility rate.
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> As Tom pointed out, I was the one who tossed that out originally. You did the
> math right and understand the reason. If you are controlling a population (of
> mamals, at least), the way to do so is to control the female reproduction.
> Good and bad people alike have been applying such techniqes to humans and
> livestock for thousands of years. I suspect that the reason polygyny is wildly
> more common historically than polyandry is that a single male can fertilize a
> staggeringly large number of females, but of course, a female can only be
> pregnant one at a time.
A suprisingly effective way to curtail population growth (at least in
iteroparous organisms) is to delay the age of first production. It's
also a lot nicer than forced sterilization.
-chris
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