Perusse conducted an excellent study on French-Canadians in Quebec. One minor criticism of his work however is the way he analyzed earlier studies. In fact a more careful analysis would provide stronger corroboration for his own findings. The problems with his review include 1) the omission of several studies 2) counting the same results twice 3) tabulating statistically insignificant results as a "no" instead of as a neutral result 4) failing to combine the components of fertility and survivorship to reach an estimate of reproductive success 5) citing large lineage size as a potential correlation with high cultural success or reproductive success when data exist that show large lineage size does not correlate at all with reproductive success and 6) failing to categorize societies by how well they approximate the environment of evolutionary adaptedness and then to analyze separately those which most closely make the approximation. In fact tabulation of published data from tribal societies which are nonliterate nonurban and have had little or no previous contact with literate or urban societies correlates Perusses study by showing a positive correlation of cultural success and reproductive success for more traditional societies that practice polygyny and not contraception. The societies included are Yomut Yanomamo Muslim Hausa non-Muslim Hausa Ache Ifaluk Kipsigis and Mukogodo. The questions raised by Prusses findings include why have humans created socially-imposed monogamy why have they invented contraception and what motivates them to use contraception. The answer to these questions may require the introduction of the perceived cost of childrearing as a factor which may play a role in both low fertility and the flat or inverse correlation of cultural and reproductive success.

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