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Why and how do religious individuals, and some religious groups, achieve higher relative fertility?

2017-03-13

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Across the contemporary world, religious individuals tend to exhibit higher relative fertility than their secular counterparts, while religions vary substantially in mean fertility levels. Across all biological taxa, organisms sacrifice quantity for quality of offspring. If all things were equal, then, religious individuals would be expected to produce lower-quality offspring and religions with high fertility leve...

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902d6fe8-ab04-5cfa-9a4d-3a73c10341db
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10.1080/2153599x.2016.1249920
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