[ExI] The Dogs of Immortality

[Damien Broderick]

At 04:17 PM 7/19/2008 -0700, Avant wrote:

>--- Stathis Papaioannou <stathisp at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I can't really see a pattern here. Why should stable, low-taxing,
> > pro-business, small Government Switzerland do so badly, for example?
> > Why should Ireland do so well? Why should Canada do better than the
> > US?
>
>Well in your opinion as a medical doctor, is there a pattern to the relative
>growth rates of different children for example?

Stuart, that's a terrible analogy. (I hope.) Nations have homeorhetic 
bauplans? When and by what ordained process do the growth gradients 
saturate? (I speak loosely, you understand.)

Damien Broderick