Fertility norms and cultural evolution http://family-studies.org/who-decides-when-to-stop-how-couples-resolve-conflicts-over-childbearing/ …
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A neat framework: societal norm prevails unless BOTH partners are united against it. Within-couple cooperation is dangerous to norms! ;)
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Pair bonding/sex are innate drives. But the drive "to have children" divorced from these is so abstract that only culture can maintain it.
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"Having children" being divorced from pair bonding and sex is NOT a new problem, and cultures did solve it, for thousands of years.
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Re: multilevel selection - wolf reproduction http://www.wolfcountry.net/information/WolfReproduction.html …
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If by some mistake a non-alpha pair reproduces, the alphas simple kill the pups http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/z90-058 …
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