{Birth Peaks and National Type}[23rd April 1990]

[Redbook7:126-128][19900423:0915]{Birth Peaks and National Type}[23rd April 1990]

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[A cutting from the New Scientist 19900421:27 inserted here cannot be reproduced here for copyright reasons. It is headed “Not tonight darling – it isn’t Christmas” and reports on a study by William James of the Mammalian Development Unit of the Medical Research Council at University College, London (Journal of Biosocial Science, vol 22, p113). It reports that “For centuries, the spring has been the peak season for births,* unlike in the U.S., where births have peaked in Autumn since the middle of the 19^th century. Now the European peak is also changing to the autumn, and it seems that holidays are to blame.... Until recently... countries in the southern hemisphere whose population were of European descent has a pattern of births similar to the European one... displaced by six months.”]

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[The ms diagram reproduced above, which is mostly a reference diagram repeating earlier*circle diagrams relating to modes of thought, is probably too wide in too many columns to be easily reproduced in the ts.]

*{But see [[Redbook7:167][19900716:019]{Sperm Count Cycles}[16th July 1990],] 167}

[A newspaper cutting highlighting: “In England and Wales, the peak in births is in December, with a trough from January to March.”]

**cf [[Redbook7:133][19900514:0900]{Occupational Birth-dates}[14th July 1990],] 133;

[[Redbook7:167][19900716:019]{Sperm Count Cycles}[16th July 1990],]167

***(& ref II.[[Redbook2:133][19780831:2240]{Narrative Dreams}[31st August 1978] – fn re cutting re Alan Smithers’ statistical research inserted there,]133)

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