Charles> N.B.: People have practiced birth control as far back as we Charles> have information. Look into the story of Oedipus Rex. Study Charles> the histories of the Polynesians. The only modern feature is Charles> that we are now allowing the practice to occur before the Charles> investment in pregnancy.
The modern feature is that whole peoples have chosen to reproduce at half replacement level. In case you haven't thought about the implications of that, that means their genes, for example, are vanishing from the pool by a factor of 2 every 20 years or so. Won't take long before they are gone. I don't doubt there is a good element of K-strategy in human makeup, but evidently the K-strategy programming is a bit out of whack. I expect this was caused by our mental programming advancing much faster, at the cultural, meme, etc level, in the presence of language and printing presses etc, than evolution of the genome could keep up with. My guess is evolution will catch up and correct this in a generation or two, but in the meantime it is going to have substantial demographic effects. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=e9e40a7e
