For a biologist, it is a remarkable thing to find a behavior that promotes
zero fitness. If it were an isolated example, it could easily be dismissed
as a maladaptive oddity, destined always to remain rare as it is in all
wild species because of its intense disfavor under natural selection. I
Another thought: Today I listened to John McCain speak at our campus.
One of the people who asked him a question was a young mother with 3
children and her question regarded concerns about the future for her
children. One thing about having children is it provides some parents
with greater incen
A third world view on childfree ideology.
Here in Brazil, anyone who decides to not have kids in an attempt to save
the world, will soon became frustrated in seeing uneducated and miserable
couples in slums having 6 or 7 or even 10 children. The decision is clearly
useless and is clear to me
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Several people sent me links to climate data in
response to my earlier request. I've summarized
them below. Thanks to everyone who assisted.
DAYMET - http://www.daymet.org Daily climate
data, 1km resolution, U.S. only, 1980 1997
PRISM - http://www.prism.oregonstate.edu Monthly,
800m to 4km d
I would like to say that if you have children, you will inherently pass
certain world-perspectives to them. Of course, as they develop and learn on
their own they will adopt their own values and personal perspectives --
something every human is entitled to, and should strive for.
However, if every
Mikes post suggests that there may be a genetic element to caring for
nature. I am not so sure about that, though I guess it might be
possible. As for the cultural background, well, how many children end
up behaving as their parents would wish? Overall, I suspect the
larger material cult
While a childfree lifestyle may be a valid and important ethical choice
(though probably a freedom for only a portion of the female population in
this world), the woman in the article that started this discussion chose to
terminate a pregnancy using the save the planet rationale (as I
recall).
The Mt. Graham Red Squirrel Monitoring Program, a long term ecological research
project, seeks two research assistants to participate in population and
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mountains in southeastern Arizona. This isolated population of squ
Yes, I am pleased to see the childfree movement continuing to garner press
attention; a childfree lifestyle is one of many tools that may contribute to a
long-term balance in human demand on natural resources. (In order to share
experiences and ideas with others, childfree-leaning individuals n
I know all about that. And how difficult it is to get doctors to
believe you REALLY don't want kids of your own..
I tell my colleagues that I'm working on my inclusive fitness.
CL
Matheus Carvalho wrote:
> ... to reduce her CO2 footprint.
>
> http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/artic
You said:
"All of the people who believed that they could help to save the
planet by not having babies lived their life span and died. The rest
of the world's population went ahead and had babies. As the genetic
(and cultural) lines of those believers in birth control perished,
the human popula
Matheus does raise a point that is rarely discussed even here and virtually
never by (American) politicos. The human footprint would still be
problematic with a smaller global population, but it would be made vastly
more bearable if we weren't multipying quite so fruitfully. I've seen
estimates (po
>All of the people who believed that they could help to save the planet
by not having babies lived their life span and died. The rest of the
world's population went ahead and had babies. As the genetic (and
cultural) lines of those believers in birth control perished, the human
population grew
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Jon,
We have a protocol that uses PhotoShop and ImageJ (freeware from NIH) to
calculate herbivory 'manually' for tropical and temperate forest leaf
scans. It is a bit labour intensive but can be made less so depending
on the level of detail necessary. If your scans have multiple leaves,
you
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All of the people who believed that they could help to save the planet
by not having babies lived their life span and died. The rest of the
world's population went ahead and had babies. As the genetic (and
cultural) lines of those believers in birth control perished, the human
population grew e
Hi Xiaohua,
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Scion image (http://www.scioncorp.com/pages/scion_image_windows.htm) is a n=
ice, free software that should allow you to manually calculate leaf damage =
areas. Automatic processing is much trickier. Regent intruments (http://reg=
entinstruments.com/) have various automated image an
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