Why are families getting smaller?
- Author
- The Open University
- Published
- Thu 01 Apr 2010
- Episode Link
- http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/science/index.htm?LKCAMPAIGN=it001_sub&MEDIA=it001_sci
The current decline in family size seems to contradict the Darwinian model of inclusive fitness but it can be explained as a tradeoff between the cost of bringing up children and the number of children in a family.
