Casey, Gregory; Shayegh, Soheil; Moreno Cruz, Juan; … - 2019
This research presents the first evidence that moderate fecundity had maximized long-run reproductive success in the …-1800 period, we find that while a high fecundity was associated with a larger number of children, perhaps paradoxically, a … moderate fecundity had maximized the number of descendants after several generations. Moreover, the finding suggests that the …