This paper proposes core innovations in the strategy of research on demographic
behaviour. One aim is a shift of attention away from events and towards a focus on dynamic …

Beginning in the early 1970s social science research was transformed by new subfields in
sociology, anthropology, developmental psychology, social history, and demography that …

Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time. Over the last
three decades, social demographers have made remarkable progress in documenting these …

Cultural evolutionary theory and human behavioural ecology offer different, but compatible
approaches to understanding human demographic behaviour. For much of their 30 history …

Textbooks tell us that demographers study population change, and that such change is
brought about by developments in the three basic components of fertility, mortality and …

Despite recent advances in our understanding of the genetic basis of human behavior, little
of this work has penetrated into formal demography. Very few demographers worry about …

Basic and applied scientists who study psychosocial influences on human development
confront a similar challenge, which is to conduct research that can achieve two goals. First …

Demography, lacking an overarching theoretical framework of its own, has drawn on
theories in many other social sciences to inform its analyses. The aim of this paper is to bring …

In human populations, biological, social, spatial, ecological and economic aspects of
existence are inextricably linked, demanding a holistic approach to their study. Many …

In his 1995 plenary to the European Population Conference entitled 'God has chosen to give
the easy problems to the physicists: or why demographers need theory', Guillaume Wunsch …