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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: National Proofreading Day (8 March)
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2024 20:58:19 -0000 (UTC)
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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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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de