I hear a lot of positive talk about early marriage, as if it were a forgotten ancestral solution recently dropped for the sake of education.
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing I think most people are referring to U.S. history when they advise it-but "early" marriage here has always meant early 20s.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SunshineMarySSM
@SunshineMarySSM Age at First Reproduction fell slowly from mid- to early 20s over centuries during settlement of US & Canada1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@SunshineMarySSM Milot http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/09/28/1104210108 … finds a decline from 26 to 22, likely slow-life-history folks getting replaced by rabbits ;)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing 1. You don't have a full text source for that article, do you? It looks really interesting! Does the lowered AFR come with1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @SunshineMarySSM
@sarahdoingthing 2. a lowered age of marriage (I'm assuming it does)? Also, this contradicts sources I've read for the colonial years in the2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @SunshineMarySSM
@sarahdoingthing 3. U.S., when age of first marriage was reported for women to be early 20s.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @SunshineMarySSM
@SunshineMarySSM age at *marriage* dropped suddenly, but age at having the first child took centuries to drop that far1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@SunshineMarySSM so the strange idea is that e.g. 16th century French peasant teenagers/early 20s women actually weren't fertile!2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing This is interesting; was the problem disease or malnutrition? I haven't read Frost's essay yet but will.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@SunshineMarySSM malnutrition makes sense in that obesity seems to decrease age at menarche, but who knows?
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Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@SunshineMarySSM if it was only malnutrition, you'd expect the Canadian AFR to drop suddenly - Milot & Frost think it's a genetic shift0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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