Ecological demography: A synthetic focus in evolutionary anthropology
dc.contributor.author | Low, Bobbi S. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-28T17:05:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-28T17:05:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1993 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Low, Bobbi S. (1993)."Ecological demography: A synthetic focus in evolutionary anthropology." Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews 1(5): 177-187. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/38586> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1060-1538 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1520-6505 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/38586 | |
dc.description.abstract | The interests of evolutionary anthropologists, behavioral ecologists, and demographers converge on the ecology of human fertility. Ecological conditions influence the optimum pattern of maternal effort. Patterns of abortion, neglect, and infanticide vary with mothers' ability to invest in their children and children's ability to use that investment. As in most other mammals, the ecology of human fertility varies between the sexes: status and resource control are important for males, whereas reproductive value is crucial for females. In pre-industrial societies, and even in monogamous societies in demographic transition, wealthy men had more children than did poorer men. This correlation, often assumed to have disappeared, persists today, with richer men still having more sexual access than others. Sex differences in the ecology of fertility mean that sex of the offspring, as well as birth order, influences parental investment. Because individual fertility varies with environment, it is not surprising that “natural” (uncontrolled) fertility varies across societies or that demographic transitions proceed locally, with occasional reverses, as individuals strive to maximize their lifetime reproductive success in changing, competitive, conditions. | en_US |
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dc.format.extent | 3118 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | John Wiley & Sons, Inc. | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life and Medical Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.title | Ecological demography: A synthetic focus in evolutionary anthropology | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | School of Natural Resources and Environment. University of Michigan ; Originally trained in evolutionary and behavioral ecology, she currently works on human resource ecology. | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/38586/1/1360010507_ftp.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/evan.1360010507 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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