Douglas Bailey (trystero) wrote,
Douglas Bailey
trystero

I feel vaguely uncomfortable just *thinking* about it.

"The Guinness Book of World Records gives the 'official' record number of children for a woman as sixty-nine, produced by an eighteenth-century Russian peasant. In twenty-seven pregnancies between 1725 and 1745, she had sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets."
—Jerry A. Coyne, Why Evolution Is True
Tags: bizarretude, science, sex
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