A general measure of human population growth regulation A short version of this paper was read at the 1972 meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
dc.contributor.author | Weiss, Kenneth M. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-28T15:53:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-28T15:53:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1972-11 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Weiss, Kenneth M. (1972)."A general measure of human population growth regulation A short version of this paper was read at the 1972 meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. ." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 37(3): 337-343. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/37530> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0002-9483 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1096-8644 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/37530 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=5082927&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | A general measure relating the relative effects of mortality and fertility in damping population growth has been derived from stable population theory. This measure, called the Index of Growth Regulation, can be calculated from a life table and a fertility schedule. It is a single number which integrates the fertility and mortality aspects of a population. It has intuitive meaning, and can be related to social aspects of the population. It can be used to compare any two populations, and for this purpose it has advantages over traditional comparative statistics such as life expectancy, which consider only mortality. By selecting life tables representing general stages of human cultural evolution, it has been shown that hunting-gathering populations were regulated more by mortality than by fertility factors. That is, more growth which could have occurred did not occur due to the incidence of mortality than to the incidence of infecundity. The two forces were of about equal weight before the industrial revolution, and fertility has had a predominant role in population regulation since the beginning of industrialization. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life and Medical Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.title | A general measure of human population growth regulation A short version of this paper was read at the 1972 meetings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. | 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 | Department of Human Genetics, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 5082927 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/37530/1/1330370303_ftp.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330370303 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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