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Offspring : Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (397 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780309507554
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: OffspringDDC classification:
  • 304.6/32
LOC classification:
  • QP251.W665 2002
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- 1 Biodemography of Fertility and Family Formation -- 2 Genetic Influences on Fertility: Strengths and Limitations of Quantitative Inferences -- 3 Education, Fertility, and Heritability: Explaining a Paradox -- 4 The Neural Basis of Pair Bonding in a Monogamous Species: A Model for Understanding the Biological Basis of Human Behavior -- 5 Hormonal Mediation of Physiological and Behavioral Processes That Influence Fertility -- 6 Intraspecific Variability in Fertility and Offspring Survival in a Nonhuman Primate: Behavioral Control of Ecological and Social Sources -- 7 An Evolutionary and Ecological Analysis of Human Fertility, Mating Patterns, and Parental Investment -- 8 Sexually Antagonistic Coevolution: Theory, Evidence, and Implications for Patterns of Human Mating and Fertility -- 9 Pubertal Maturation, Adrenarche, and the Onset of Reproduction in Human Males -- 10 Energetics, Sociality, and Human Reproduction: Life History Theory in Real Life -- 11 Evolutionary Biology and Rational Choice in Models of Fertility -- 12 Reflections on Demographic, Evolutionary, and Genetic Approaches to the Study of Human Reproductive Behavior -- Contributors and Other Workshop Participants -- Index.
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Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- 1 Biodemography of Fertility and Family Formation -- 2 Genetic Influences on Fertility: Strengths and Limitations of Quantitative Inferences -- 3 Education, Fertility, and Heritability: Explaining a Paradox -- 4 The Neural Basis of Pair Bonding in a Monogamous Species: A Model for Understanding the Biological Basis of Human Behavior -- 5 Hormonal Mediation of Physiological and Behavioral Processes That Influence Fertility -- 6 Intraspecific Variability in Fertility and Offspring Survival in a Nonhuman Primate: Behavioral Control of Ecological and Social Sources -- 7 An Evolutionary and Ecological Analysis of Human Fertility, Mating Patterns, and Parental Investment -- 8 Sexually Antagonistic Coevolution: Theory, Evidence, and Implications for Patterns of Human Mating and Fertility -- 9 Pubertal Maturation, Adrenarche, and the Onset of Reproduction in Human Males -- 10 Energetics, Sociality, and Human Reproduction: Life History Theory in Real Life -- 11 Evolutionary Biology and Rational Choice in Models of Fertility -- 12 Reflections on Demographic, Evolutionary, and Genetic Approaches to the Study of Human Reproductive Behavior -- Contributors and Other Workshop Participants -- Index.

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