Fertility changes with the prehistoric transition to agriculture: Perspectives from reproductive ecology and paleodemography

Reproductive Ecology and Human Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 203-231

  Bentley, Gillian R ^a   Paine, Richard R ^b   Boldsen, Jesper L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

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