Human populations need at least 2.7 children per woman—a much higher fertility rate than previously believed—to reliably avoid long-term extinction, according to a new study published in the open-access journal PLOS One by Takuya Okabe of Shizuoka University, Japan, and colleagues.
2.1 kids per woman might not be enough for population survival, new research reveals
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