Background Although the health benefits of breastfeeding are widely acknowledged,
opinions and recommendations are strongly divided on the optimal duration of exclusive …

Publisher Summary The structure, efficiency, and growth of production affect (and are
affected by) the distribution of consumption. Poverty analysis has three tasks:(1) to define …

The Ache, whose life history the authors recounts, are a small indigenous population of
hunters and gatherers living in the neotropical rainforest of eastern Paraguay. This is part …

Breastfeeding is negatively correlated with future fertility because nursing temporarily
reduces fecundity and because mothers usually wean on becoming pregnant again. We …

Although the health benefits of breastfeeding are acknowledged widely, opinions and
recommendations are divided on the optimal duration of exclusive breastfeeding. We …

Charles Darwin attributed human evolutionary success to three traits. Our social habits and
anatomy were important, he said, but the critical feature was our intelligence, because it led …

Awarded the WW Howells Award for the Outstanding Book in Biological Anthropology, this
volume presents a comprehensive, integrated, and up-to-date overview of the major …

Caldwell's wealth flows theory of human family size predicts that children in high-fertility
societies provide net economic wealth for parents. Models of fertility derived from …

OBJETIVO: Revisar os benefícios da amamentação para a saúde da mulher. FONTES DOS
DADOS: Foram selecionados artigos publicados entre 1990 e 2004 nas bases de dados …

This analysis uses data from Bangladesh and the Philippines to demonstrate that children
who are born within 15 months of a preceding birth are 60 to 80% more likely than other …