I think the statistic that one third of americans do not believe in evolution may be explained by lack of procreatory behaviour. See paper below. http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/faculty/oswald/finalsentscanjsex04.pdf Money, Sex and Happiness: An Empirical Study This paper studies the links between income, sexual behavior and reported happiness. It uses recent data on a sample of 16,000 adult Americans. The paper finds that sexual activity enters strongly positively in happiness equations. Greater income does not buy more sex, nor more sexual partners. Married people have more sex than those who are single, divorced, widowed or separated. The happiness-maximizing number of sexual partners in the previous year is calculated to be 1. Highly educated females tend to have fewer sexual partners. Homosexuality has no statistically significant effect on happiness. Detailed conclusions include the following: (i) The median American has sexual intercourse 2-3 times a month (among people under 40 years of age, the median amount of sex is once a week). Approximately 7% of the population report having sex at least four times a week. (ii) A third of American women over the age of 40 report they did not have sexual intercourse in the previous year. The figure for men is 15%. (iii) Homosexual and bisexual people make up 2%-3% of the United States population. (iv) There is some evidence that sex has disproportionately strong effects on the happiness of highly educated people. (v) The happiness-maximizing number of sexual partners in the previous year is 1. (vi) Homosexuality has no statistically significant effects on happiness. (vii) Married people have more sex than those who are single, divorced, widowed, or separated. (viii) Highly educated females have fewer sexual partners. (ix) Income has no clear effect. Money buys neither more sexual partners nor more sex. On Aug 13 2006, Dennis Raphael wrote: >Another indicator of public understanding and receptiveness to "complex" >concepts. -- dr > >"In evolution, Americans are big non-believers" > >39% called Darwinism "absolutely false"in the 2005 survey; >In other countries 80% of adults do believe > > < > http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060811.wevolution0811/EmailBNStory/Science/home >> > >------------------- >Problems/Questions? Send it to Listserv owner: [log in to unmask] > > > To unsubscribe, send the following message in the text section -- NOT the > subject header -- to [log in to unmask] SIGNOFF SDOH > > DO NOT SEND IT BY HITTING THE REPLY BUTTON. THIS SENDS THE MESSAGE TO THE > ENTIRE LISTSERV AND STILL DOES NOT REMOVE YOU. > > To subscribe to the SDOH list, send the following message to > [log in to unmask] in the text section, NOT in the subject header. > SUBSCRIBE SDOH yourfirstname yourlastname > >To post a message to all 1000+ subscribers, send it to [log in to unmask] >Include in the Subject, its content, and location and date, if relevant. > >For a list of SDOH members, send a request to [log in to unmask] > > To receive messages only once a day, send the following message to > [log in to unmask] SET SDOH DIGEST > > To view the SDOH archives, go to: > https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/sdoh.html ------------------- Problems/Questions? Send it to Listserv owner: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe, send the following message in the text section -- NOT the subject header -- to [log in to unmask] SIGNOFF SDOH DO NOT SEND IT BY HITTING THE REPLY BUTTON. THIS SENDS THE MESSAGE TO THE ENTIRE LISTSERV AND STILL DOES NOT REMOVE YOU. To subscribe to the SDOH list, send the following message to [log in to unmask] in the text section, NOT in the subject header. SUBSCRIBE SDOH yourfirstname yourlastname To post a message to all 1000+ subscribers, send it to [log in to unmask] Include in the Subject, its content, and location and date, if relevant. For a list of SDOH members, send a request to [log in to unmask] To receive messages only once a day, send the following message to [log in to unmask] SET SDOH DIGEST To view the SDOH archives, go to: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/sdoh.html