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Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality

Theoretical and Empirical Contributions from the Biological and Behavioral Sciences

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  1. Joseph Lee Rodgers

    1. University of Oklahoma, USA

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  2. David C. Rowe

    1. University of Arizona, USA

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  3. Warren B. Miller

    1. Transnational Family Research Institute, USA

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality: Introductory Comments from a Biological Scientist

    • Dean H. Hamer
    Pages 1-2

  3. Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality: Introductory Comments from a Social Scientist

    • Christine Bachrach
    Pages 3-5

  4. Evolutionary Causes of Genetic Variation in Fertility and other Fitness Components

    • Kimberly A. Hughes, Mary H. Burleson
    Pages 7-33

  5. Genetic Influences on Childbearing Motivation: Further Testing a Theoretical Framework

    • Warren B. Miller, David J. Pasta, James MacMurray, Donn Muhleman, David E. Comings
    Pages 35-66

  6. Genetic Influences on Fertility Behavior: Findings From a Danish Twin Study, 1910–1923

    • Hans-Peter Kohler, Kaare Christensen
    Pages 67-84

  7. Genetic and Environmental Influences on Fertility Expectations and Outcomes Using NLSY Kinship Data

    • Joseph Lee Rodgers, Debby Doughty
    Pages 85-105

  8. A Heritability Study of Childbearing Motivation

    • David J. Pasta, Warren B. Miller
    Pages 107-120

  9. Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality: Commentary on Chapters 1–5

    • J. Richard Udry
    Pages 121-126

  10. Conditional and Alternative Reproductive Strategies: Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Rearing Experiences

    • Jay Belsky
    Pages 127-146

  11. Environmental and Genetic Influences on Pubertal Development: Evolutionary Life History Traits?

    • David C. Rowe
    Pages 147-168

  12. Behavior Genetic Modeling of Menarche in U.S. Females

    • Debby Doughty, Joseph Lee Rodgers
    Pages 169-181

  13. Early Family Environment, Reproductive Strategy, and Contraceptive Behavior: Testing a Genetic Hypothesis

    • Warren B. Miller, David J. Pasta
    Pages 183-230

  14. Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality: Commentary on Chapters 6–9

    • Linda Mealey
    Pages 231-235

  15. The Genetics of Human Sexual Orientation

    • Khytam Dawood, J. Michael Bailey
    Pages 237-252

  16. Endophenotypes for Marital Status in the NAS-NRC Twin Registry

    • Susan L. Trumbetta, Irving I. Gottesman
    Pages 253-269

  17. Age at First Childbirth: A Major Selective Factor for Psychiatric Genes in the Twentieth Century

    • David E. Comings
    Pages 271-287

  18. Twinning, Fertility, and the Opportunity for Natural Selection in a Micronesian Island Population

    • Jane Underwood
    Pages 289-302

  19. Associations Between the Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Gene (NOS3), Reproductive Behaviors, and Twinning

    • James MacMurray, Bruce Kovacs, Matt McGue, James P. Johnson, Hezekiah Blake, David E. Comings
    Pages 303-316

  20. Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality: Commentary on Chapters 10–14

    • A. J. Figueredo
    Pages 317-323
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About this book

Recent work in quantitative biology has shown theoretically why Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection does not preclude genetic influences on fertility, sexuality, and related processes. Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality takes the next step, and presents a number of successful empirical searches for such genetic influence on a broad range of processes, such as puberty, marriage, sexual behavior, and twinning. Employing a broad range of methodological approaches, including molecular and behavioral genetics, this book weaves a new theoretical framework that shows how genes can help relate fertility planning to fertility outcome, and how puberty, sexuality, marriage, and reproduction can be conceptually linked through the genes that contribute to individual differences in the human process.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Oklahoma, USA

    Joseph Lee Rodgers

  • University of Arizona, USA

    David C. Rowe

  • Transnational Family Research Institute, USA

    Warren B. Miller

About the editors

Joseph Lee Rodgers is a Robert Glenn Rapp Foundation Presidential Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality

  • Book Subtitle: Theoretical and Empirical Contributions from the Biological and Behavioral Sciences

  • Editors: Joseph Lee Rodgers, David C. Rowe, Warren B. Miller

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4467-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7860-0Published: 30 June 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7012-3Published: 08 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-4467-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 331

  • Topics: Human Genetics, Medicine/Public Health, general, Gynecology, Evolutionary Biology

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