Alas, pinning down evolved relationships betweenfertility and health is tricky. Modern medicine andthe pampering effects of economic growth meanthat, these days, women everywhere give birth tofewer children than they did in the distantevolutionary past, when human bodies andphysiology were forgedeven as more of theoffspring they do bear survive into adulthood. InEurope and North America this demographictransition began in earnest around 1870.
唉,控制生育和保持健康之间的关系是很难的。现代医学和经济的发展精心呵护的结果是,当人体和生理机能被伪造,这个时候的女性无论在哪里都会比处在以前缓慢发展时期的女性生的孩子要少,因为她们生的孩子大部分能活到成年。在欧洲和北美这个人口过渡开始于 1870年左右。
One way round this is to look at records gathered before the demographic transition began.The problem is that few authorities then kept tabs diligently enough to provide adequatefodder for statistical analysis. One exception was Utah, a state largely settled in its earlydays by Mormons, who have always taken such matters seriously. As a result, Utahs Pedigreeand Population Resource, a database of which Dr Smith is the director, contains 1.6mgenealogical records for people in the state from the early 1800s to the 1970s.
围绕着寻找记录及合并的方法要在人口过渡开始前完成。这个问题是只有很少的当局会勤奋的为统计分析提供足够的材料保持制表符。一个例外是犹他州,在早期有摩门教徒定居在此,他们总是严肃的对待事情。结果,在史密斯博士作为主管的一个数据库中,犹他州的血统和人口资源包括160万份在早期的1800世纪到 1970世纪中居住于此的居民的家谱记录。
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