What Lyman Stone thinks about evolutionary biology

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Demographer. Director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies and a research fellow at Cardus, he writes about fertility, marriage and how family statistics are measured, and argues in public with most other people who work on the subject.

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1. 15 Jul 2025

   Our readingEvolution gave humans no target number of births, because what mattered historically was keeping children alive rather than producing them.

   Their wordsAs a result, natural selection is very unlikely to have produced in humans any predisposition or preference for a certain number of births.

   ↗There Is No Long Decline in Fertilitylymanstone.substack.com 2nd of 5 in this piece