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- From: carmanr@lafcol.lafayette.edu (Carman Robert (picro))
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- Subject: Re: Abbey bashing. Was: Trip rpt: SE Utah 4wd vacation, part 3/4
- Summary: Population case study...
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 17:06:41 GMT
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- You know all those formulations that tell you about how many jillions of
- meadow voles one female would produce in a year if...? Here's a human example.
- My maternal grandmother, who homesteaded in Oklahoma with her husband in the
- last Cherokee Strip run, had 13 children. Though all were born at home and
- delivered by neighboring farm wives acting as midwives, they all survived to
- adulthood. Although my mother had only two children, her record for fecundity
- was well below the family average. One of her brothers had 11 sons, another
- eight children. By the time my grandmother died at age 104 (said to have been
- the last Oklahoma homesteader still in possession of the original 160), she
- had 191 living direct descendants. Only five of them, by the way, still live
- in the county where the homestead was located. The rest of us are all out
- there somewhere, demanding new subdivisions and overrunning the backcountry.
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