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Vaniver comments on Optimal eating (or rather, a step in the right direction) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Vaniver 20 January 2015 02:51:42PM *  3 points [-]

Rapid population growth decreases the efficiency of purifying selection.

Doesn't that depend on how uniform the growth is? If a third of women have 0, 2, and 4 children respectively, then I would expect the genes that put you in the most fertile group to spread more slowly (in both relative and absolute terms) than under conditions where a third of women have 0, 3, and 9 children respectively.