sorry if this is too wild a question-the motivation is partly that many countries are expected to eventually go into demographic decline due to fertility rates, but Africa is an exception, so the question is meant to illuminate a possible situation at some future time
https://www.reddit.com/r/Natalism/comments/1f3leta/more_money_more_babies_whats_the_relationship/
As you can see, this was already posted here, but the graph is sufficiently interesting that I thought maybe we could use a signal boost. As it happens, the author is none other than Lyman Stone. I also wonder how fine-grained this data is - do they literally have data for the 99th percentile? It would also be interesting, if possible, to know how this has changed over time - even in broad strokes, were the same trends true back in the 1960s?
>But it’s not obvious how these clusters of genes gave prehistoric people an evolutionary boost. “This study represents almost a decade of intense work, but it’s really just scratching the surface,” says Harvard evolutionary biologist Annabel Perry, another co-author. “They didn’t have college in the Neolithic, so what is the trait that’s really changing? This is an invitation for researchers to do the digging to find those associations.”
I was reading this old post:
https://news.wisc.edu/humans-may-be-reversing-the-climate-clock-by-50-million-years/
But I heard they are retiring RCP 8.5, which was the basis for the post, so now I wonder if there is still any possibility of us ever reaching a climate on par with the Eocene.
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I think the only mod is suspended.
With Egypt I found the situation with FGM awful - the prevalence is extremely high. Are the human rights conditions on our aid in any way dependent on reducing FGM or even treatment of women in general?
>“There is enough evidence in both areas to act to reduce our impact on the planet,” she said.
sounds to me pretty vague, and saying we should just "do something" is not persuasive, but the general idea of this possibility is still scary.