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The planet's longest-running stat that everyone has opinions about and no control over.
means The capacity to produce offspring or, more broadly, to generate abundant growth — whether in bodies, soil, or ideas.
from From Latin 'fertilis' (fruitful, able to bear), rooted in the verb 'ferre' meaning 'to bear or carry' — the same root that gives us 'transfer' and 'fertile.' The word traveled through Old French before settling into English, always carrying that core sense of bearing fruit, bearing young, bearing weight.
- peak age myth
- Fertility dips gradually, not off a cliff at 35
- male clock
- Sperm quality also declines steadily with age
- global trend
- Birth rates are falling in nearly every country
- egg count
- Women are born with all the eggs they'll ever have