Re: National Proofreading Day (8 March)

On 2024-03-08, Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> wrote:

Of course there is no longer any evolutionary (reproductive)
advantage to earning more money, but I wonder if before wide-spread
contraception there was some measure selection pressure on this.

I vaguely remember that Swedish birth records from the 19th century
show that rich women had more children.  Sorry, I can't cite a
source.  (I may have read it in PLoS Biology or Medicine.)
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