Overview
- Editors:
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Joseph Lee Rodgers
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University of Oklahoma Norman, Norman, USA
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Hans-Peter Kohler
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Biodemography and Fertility: Bio-Evolutionary Models
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- Kimberly A. Hughes, Mary H. Burleson, F. Helen Rodd
Pages 23-42
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Biodemography and Fertility: Evolutionary Life History Models
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- Kermyt G. Anderson, Bobbi S. Low
Pages 57-86
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- Claudia Valeggia, Peter T. Ellison
Pages 87-103
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- Bobbi S. Low, Carl S. Simon, Kermyt G. Anderson
Pages 105-134
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- Rebecca Sear, Ruth Mace, Ian A. McGregor
Pages 135-160
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Biodemography and Fertility: Genetics Models
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- Cathleen B. Hunt, David C. Rowe
Pages 161-185
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- James MacMurray, Amanda Madrid, Egidio Bottini, Donn Muhleman, David Comings
Pages 187-199
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- Fulvia Gloria-Bottini, Gianfranco F. Meloni, James P. MacMurray, Ermelando Cosmi, Tullio Meloni, Egidio Bottini
Pages 201-208
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- Joseph Lee Rodgers, Hans-Peter Kohler, Kaare Christensen
Pages 229-250
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Back Matter
Pages 251-258
About this book
The book that you hold in your hands is the second in a series. The two titles in the series are the following: Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions from the Biological and Behavior Sciences Edited by Joseph Lee Rodgers, David C. Rowe, & Warren B. Miller Published by Kluwer Academic Press, 2000 The Biodemography of Human Reproduction and Fertility Edited by Joseph Lee Rodgers & Hans-Peter Kohler Published by Kluwer Academic Press, 2002 The series has published chapters by researchers who study human fertility, from a particular perspective: Biodemography. We welcome your interest and participation in this developing subfield. Or, perhaps, biodemography may be better referred to as a "superfield. " Because biodemography so naturally crosses interdisciplinary boundaries, and because its application draws together researchers from disparate disciplines, it may well be more appropriate to consider that biodemography subsumes a number of other disciplines, rather than the other way around. In this preface, we will describe our own efforts and those of many others to promote and develop the study of human fertility, using methods, models, and theories from both biological and demographic domains. In December, 1997, 25 participants from three different countries gathered in Tucson, Arizona for a small conference with the title "Genetic Influences on Fertility-Related Processes. " That conference represented a fascinating blending of research from two apparently separate domains.
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"This book should give readers a lot of new ideas with which to approach their own research problems, including up-to-date literature reviews in fields outside their own fields. It would be a great choice for a journal-club-like course in which students and faculty can hash out the issues and the consequences of better data or different statistical methods."
(American Journal of Human Biology, 16:1 (2004)
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Oklahoma Norman, Norman, USA
Joseph Lee Rodgers
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Hans-Peter Kohler
About the editors
Joseph Lee Rodgers is a Robert Glenn Rapp Foundation Presidential Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.
Hans-Peter Kohler is Head of Research Group on Social Dynamics and Fertility, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
