Fertility and resources: 31st symposium volume of the Society for the Study of Human Biology

Fertility in animals reflects access to scarce resources, such as food and territory. In humans the situation is more complex. Patterns of breast feeding, contraception and ideas about age at marriage and desired family size all affect fertility. The relation between these and access to scarce resou...

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Weitere Verfasser: Landers, John 1952- (HerausgeberIn), Reynolds, Vernon (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1990
Schriftenreihe:Society for the Study of Human Biology symposium series 31
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Zusammenfassung:Fertility in animals reflects access to scarce resources, such as food and territory. In humans the situation is more complex. Patterns of breast feeding, contraception and ideas about age at marriage and desired family size all affect fertility. The relation between these and access to scarce resources such as housing and employment, via income, education and other factors that affect status, is explored. In this book, the gap between socio-ecology and population demography is bridged, by showing how animals and humans adjust their fertility to environmental conditions
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (vii, 199 pages)
ISBN:9780511661617
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511661617

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