Demography Part 2: Population Growth and Fertility Regulation

Human Biology: An Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspective: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 757-803

  Bogin, Barry ^a   Ellison, Peter T ^b   O'rourke, Mary T ^c  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Biological regulation of human fertility, and social regulation; Human population growth, woven into human ecology; Population growth and fertility regulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887160819     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118108062.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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