Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002
ISBN 1-4020-7242-2
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The Biodemography of Human Reproduction and Fertility takes an interdisciplinary look at the subjects of fertility and reproduction.
Key topics include:
This book is for advanced level students and researchers who study human reproduction and fertility
Contents and Contributors
Preface.
Part I: Biodemography and Fertility: Bio-Evolutionary
Models.
1. Anorexia: A "Dis-ease" of Low, Low Fertility;
L. Mealey.
2. Is Phenotypic Plasticity Adaptive? K.A. Hughes, et
al.
3. The Role of Nurturant Schemas in Human Reproduction;
W.B. Miller.
Part II: Biodemography and Fertility: Evolutionary
Life History Models.
4. Nonmarital First Births and Women's Life
Histories; K.G. Anderson, B.S. Low.
5. Energetics, Fecundity, and
Human Life History; C. Valeggia, P.T. Ellison.
6. The
Biodemography of Modern Women: Tradeoffs When Resources Become
Limiting; B.S. Low, et al.
7. A Life History Approach to Fertility
Rates in Rural Gambia: Evidence for Trade-offs or Phenotypic
Correlations? R. Sear, et al.
Part III: Biodemography and
Fertility: Genetic Models.
8. Genetic and Shared Environmental
Influences on Adolescents' Timing of First Sexual Intercourse: The
Moderating Effect of Time Spent with a Sibling; C.B. Hunt,
D.C. Rowe.
9. Evidence of an Emerging Collision between the
Fertility Transition and Genotype-Dependent Fertility Differentials;
J. MacMurray, et al.
10. Evidence of Decreased Fertility in Women
Carrying the Gene for G6PD deficiency: A Study in the Sardinian
Population; F. Gloria-Bottini, et al.
11. The Impact of
Intergenerationally-Transmitted Fertility and Nuptiality on Population
Dynamics in Contemporary Populations; M. Murphy, Duolao
Wang.
12. Genetic Variance in Human Fertility: Biology,
Psychology, or Both? J.L. Rodgers, et al.
Index.