The decay of Western civilization: Double relaxed Darwinian Selection

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 118-125

  Nyborg, Helmuth ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Darwinian Selection; Demography; Dysgenics; Eugenics; Fertility; Immigration; Western civilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860653540     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.031     Document Type: Article

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