huckturner{at}hotmail.com (Huck Turner) wrote in
news:cdc3u0$2hm8$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org: 

> William Morse  wrote in message
> news:... 
>> huckturner{at}hotmail.com (Huck Turner) wrote in
>> news:cd6f01$k32$1{at}darwin.ediacara.org: 
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>> > And in terms of
>> > genetic propagation, the more educated you are, the fewer children
>> > you are likely to have (something that Darwin himself noticed).

>> The correct statement is "the fewer children you are likely to
>> raise", at least until we have done considerably more research on who
>> are the real genetic fathers of children. For women,  obviously, this
>> objection does not hold.  
 
 
> I'm not really sure what your point is. Conceiving and raising
> children are different matters and it's the former that is relevant
> here because Hawking was presumably making a comment about the
> heritable aspect of intelligence. If you are a more educated man or
> woman, you are likely to have fewer progeny and later in life. This IS
> correct and is independent of whether your statement is also correct.


I'm sorry if I did not make myself clear. Women (with a few modern 
exceptions) can not conceive more children than they can bear. Educated 
women in particular are unlikely to bear a child that they do not raise - 
so your statement equating education with "having" children is correct 
for women.

Men however can conceive many children that may not even be known to be 
theirs. So if those uneducated women who bear children raised by other 
than their biological fathers prefer to conceive children by educated 
men, it is entirely possible that for men, the more educated you are the 
more children you are likely to have. I'm not saying I believe this is 
true, I'm simply saying that until someone does the study we don't know. 
If you know that such a study has been done, I would be interested to 
hear about it.

Yours,

Bill Morse
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