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This seems like a self correcting problem.

In the past, women who didn't really want children didn't have a great deal of choice, particularly if they wanted to follow any kind of socially acceptable life. It was considered a failure to many if they didn't get a husband and children.

Therefore there was no particular evolutionary pressure to select for women who actually had a strong biological urge to have children.

But there is now, so after a few generations you end up with mostly those women having children, that genetically passed on desire becomes more prominent, and birth rates increase again. Until overpopulation becomes a new version of the problem people thought it would be previously.



That is not how evolution and natural selection works.

>Therefore there was no particular evolutionary pressure to select for women who actually had a strong biological urge to have children.

It is possible to that a biological disposition to have children sufficient to outweigh other factors do not emerge in a sufficient timespan.




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