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Fertility

(Science: biology) The capacity to conceive or induce conception and thus generate offspring. The state of being fertile; capable of producing offspring.The ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.


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Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation

... If you listen to the thoughts of evolutionary psychologists, almost always they claim that there are unconscious instinctual urges that relate to fertility and reproduction. I think the fundamental flaw in the evolutionary psychology of sex is that it fails to account for conscious brain processes ...

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by jeremyo
Mon Aug 17, 2009 12:12 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Pitfalls of Evolutionary Psychology: Exaptation
Replies: 3
Views: 133

Re: Future Human Evolution

... 'natural' things for a long, long time. Today, human life in the West is very unnatural. People are conceived using techniques for tampering with fertility. They are born in hospitals. Grow up in unnatural suburbia, treated with a wide range of unnatural medical methods, and eating unnatural processed ...

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by skeptic
Sat Jun 20, 2009 9:44 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Future Human Evolution
Replies: 41
Views: 5601

Future Human Evolution

... done in the animal kingdom and out conclusions have brought us back to good old primordial instincts - large hips, big breasts etc. - suggesting fertility, same goes with males - the females are looking for the guys who have the most advantageous genes, of course this trend is becoming less relevant ...

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by futurezoologist
Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:13 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Future Human Evolution
Replies: 41
Views: 5601

Re:

... desires don't really care if the object is 14 years old or 18 years old, as long as she looks sexually mature enough to suggest some sort of fertility. Naturally this has nothing to do with child pornography that deals with pre-teen subjects, which is much more deviated form of any natural ...

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by biohazard
Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:55 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Future Human Evolution
Replies: 41
Views: 5601

Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... of harmful). In fact a gene that would cause you an incredibly painful and slow death but will simultaneously considerably increase your fertility would be extremely helpful evolutionary speaking, while you as an individual would probably disagree. Take Huntington's disease: it is dominant, ...

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by canalon
Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:02 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16282
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