Evolutionary contributions to the study of human fertility

Population Studies

Volumn 69, Issue , 2015, Pages S39-S55

  Sear, Rebecca ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cultural evolution; evolutionary anthropology; evolutionary demography; fertility; human evolutionary ecology; life history theory

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL RELATIONS; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; FERTILITY; LIFE HISTORY THEORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL THEORY;

DEMOGRAPHY; EVOLUTION; FERTILITY; HUMAN; STATISTICS;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DEMOGRAPHY; FERTILITY; HUMANS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84928489713     PISSN: 00324728     EISSN: 14774747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2014.982905     Document Type: Article

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