Why and how do religious individuals, and some religious groups, achieve higher relative fertility?

Across the contemporary world, religious individuals tend to exhibit higher relative fertility than their secular counterparts, while religions vary substantially in mean fertility levels. Across all biological taxa, organisms sacrifice quantity for quality of offspring. If all things were equal, th...

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Main Author: Shaver, John H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2017
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2017, Volume: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 324-327
Further subjects:B life history theory
B quantity-quality trade-offs
B Fertility
B religious demography
B alloparenting
B Corrigendum
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