Publisher Summary Health and nutrition are important as ends in themselves and often are
emphasized as critical components of basic needs in developing countries. Cross-country …

Human reproductive ecology (HRE) is the study of the mechanisms that link variation in
reproductive traits with variation in local habitats. Empirical and theoretical contributions …

The book is the first to use the quantitative methods of historical demography to understand
the economic and social life of a peasant community. It examines ecological change and …

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 …

In this article we develop and apply a method for estimating fertility in paleodemographic
study. The proportion D30+/D5+, generated from standard life table calculations, is used to …

A series of eight hypotheses is presented, based on the results of current research,
concerning the responsiveness of the human ovary to constitutional and environmental …

We examine recent fertility trends in Ethiopia for evidence of short-and long-term responses
to famine, political events, and economic decline. We use retrospective data on children …

Examination of the responses of vital rates to variations in grain prices in nine pre-industrial
European countries confirms the existence of the short-term Malthusian preventive and …

and Nutrition This article reports on a collaborative proj-ect which is investigating the
usefulness of data on height for the analysis of the impact of long-term changes in nutritional …

In this article, we analyze fertility control in a rural population characterized by natural
fertility, using survival analysis on a longitudinal data set at the individual level combined …