{"id":89234,"date":"2019-04-05T07:02:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/evolutionary-changes-played-a-crucial-role-in-industrialization-study-finds"},"modified":"2019-04-05T07:02:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T14:02:22","slug":"evolutionary-changes-played-a-crucial-role-in-industrialization-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/evolutionary-changes-played-a-crucial-role-in-industrialization-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary changes played a crucial role in industrialization, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/evolutionary-changes-played-a-crucial-role-in-industrialization-study-finds2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Galor says the study results, published on Monday, April 1, in Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution, lend credence to what he and a colleague had surmised in a highly influential 2002 paper \u2014 that during the pre-industrial era, the natural selection of those who were genetically predisposed toward having fewer children was instrumental in spurring industrialization and sustained economic growth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In a study of 200 years of pre-industrial Quebecois genealogical history, researchers at Brown found that fertility-related changes in natural selection during the pre-industrial era paved the way for economic and technological progress.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019-04\/bu-ecp040419.php\">https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2019&#45;04\/bu-ecp040419.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Galor says the study results, published on Monday, April 1, in Nature Ecology &amp; Evolution, lend credence to what he and a colleague had surmised in a highly influential 2002 paper \u2014 that during the pre-industrial era, the natural selection of those who were genetically predisposed toward having fewer children was instrumental in spurring industrialization [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,385,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-evolution","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}