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Apr 2010
7m 27s
Why are families getting smaller?
THE OPEN UNIVERSITY
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The current decline in family size seems to contradict the Darwinian model of inclusive fitness but it can be explained as a tradeoff between the cost of bringing up children and the number of children in a family.
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