From: acornish@imm.cnrs.fr   
      
   On 2019-04-23 02:03:08 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) said:   
      
   > In message , Athel Cornish-Bowden   
   >  writes:   
   >> On 2019-04-22 07:44:01 +0000, MB said:   
   >>   
   >>> On 22/04/2019 08:09, Peter wrote:   
   >>>> In 1986 I was working as a Salesman of Farm Machinery here in Cornwall   
   >>>> in the St Austell area.   
   >>>> I met a lady farmer aged 80, who in the whole of her life had been out   
   >>>> of the County once.  And that to Plymouth before the war.  She hadn't   
   >>>> been impressed and never repeated the performance.   
   >>> These ladies had never even left the village which was very small and   
   >>> more of a hamlet.   
   >>   
   >> Yes, but it's not the mobility of ladies that spreads the genes, it's   
   >> the mobility of men.   
   >>   
   >>   
   > Well, either can ... (-: [Though you're probably right that ladies   
   > _did_ move about less.]   
      
   Not only that, but they had less opportunity to spread their genes   
   around. No matter how wealthy, a woman couldn't have more than about   
   one child per year. A rich and powerful man could have a lot more than   
   that.   
      
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