Population implosion collapse chaos, pronatalist billionaire discourse edition
“There are some alarming statistics in the world today, and I take it as my job in these situations to urge the audience to keep their eye on the ball of real world problems — inequality, climate change, reproductive rights, war — and not blow our minds on world population in the year 2300.”
Are you enjoying #EPC2024? Would you like to attend an international #demography conference next year as well? Are you interested in the role of contextual factors in reproductive behaviour/health?
If yes, please submit a paper to mine and Ewa Batyra's #IPC2025 session "Interplay Between Individual and Contextual Influences on Reproduction" (deadline 15 Sept 2024).
The Genomic History of the Bronze Age Southern Levant
“We find that Levant-related modern populations typically have substantial ancestry coming from populations related to the Chalcolithic Zagros and the Bronze Age Southern Levant. These groups also harbor ancestry from sources we cannot fully model with the available data, highlighting the critical role of post-Bronze-Age migrations into the region over the past 3,000 years.”
"From this graphic, we can see that Asia and Latin America emerge as the primary sources of immigration, collectively accounting for 81% of America’s 46.2 million immigrants."
'Her class and his class: Does social class matter for fertility?' by @marcoalbertini, Teodora Maksimovic, Letizia Mencarini and Giorgio Piccitto.
Online here 👇🌐
Comparing how the social class of female partners versus male partners affects the decision to have children, findings reveal that social class is a significant factor, but impacts decisions differently depending on the partner's gender.