Abstract
AbstractThe mechanisms of human birth seasonality have been debated for over 150 years1. In particular, the question of whether sexual activity or fertility variations drive birth seasonality has remained open and challenging to test without large-scale data on sexual activity 2,3. Analyzing data from half-a-million users worldwide collected from the female health tracking app Clue combined with birth records, we inferred that birth seasonality is primarily driven by seasonal fertility, yet increased sexual activity around holidays explains minor peaks in the birth curve. Our data came from locations in the Northern Hemisphere (UK, US, and France) and the Southern Hemisphere (Brazil). We found that fertility peaks between the autumn equinox and winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere locations and shortly following the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere locations.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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