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“Culture impacts demography transition more than biology ever can.” Use examples from the world to support your argument.

  • 15 marks
  • Population Geography

Biology in this debate means fecundity, the disease environment, nutrition and mortality — the physiological capacity to bear and to survive. Culture means norms, values, institutions, religion, gender relations and ideation. The statement is broadly defensible, and the reason is arithmetical before it is theoretical: human fecundity is close to constant across populations, whereas observed…

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  • Separating the Two Terms: Fecundity Is Not Fertility
  • The European Evidence: Decline Followed Culture, Not Income
  • The Same Logic in the Global South
  • India: Sub-National Variation Isolates the Cultural Variable
  • The Honest Concession: Biology Sets the Bounds and Fires the Trigger
  • Exceptions: Yet Culture Still Explains the Difference
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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