Re: Maladaptive breeding (Re: 'Face' cultures)


"Sylvia Knörr" <Sylvia.Knoerr_NoSpam_@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Anyway, I'm not so sure whether EVERY kind of stress will do the trick. I
guess there are other factors adding to it, like lifestyle. Measured by
lifestyle standards (consumption of resources per capita), Europe is a
densely populated continent. Maybe people have some kind of instinct for
the
number of persons their environment can bear when they maintain a certain
lifestyle. Our hunter-gatherer ancestors might have achieved a "feeling"
of
how many more group members their hunting grounds can support, and when
their resources dwindled, they moved on or stopped breeding for a while.
Some recent people of harsh environments (like the African Kalahari
dwellers
!Kung or San) indeed have a system of sexual taboos which include strict
sexual abstinence for several years for couples in a child-rearing phase -
thus they can guarantee that the interval of births is long enough that
the
first child is sufficiently autonomous until the next baby is born. This
keeps the overall numbers quite stable.
Although Europeans maintain a quite different lifestyle, we might have as
well reached a limit of how many people our environment can support.
Hence,
a dramatic drop of the level of lifestyle MIGHT lead to an increase of
births.

You are correct. Not every or any particular kind of stressor will do the
trick. That's why I was wondering which one it would take for folks in Yurp
to turn things around. Sometimes I think that European nations have become
almost as dysfunctional as the good, old US of A.


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