Tierra del Fuego is situated at the southern tip of the American continent, which conditions
its environmental and climatic characteristics. The colonizing population arrived, at the end …

Seasonality of births has been related to multiple factors, including environmental, biological
and sociocultural ones, in populations of diverse geographic and cultural origin. However …

Demographic studies repeatedly indicate that human births tend to fluctuate in a seasonal
pattern, particularly in agricultural groups. Interestingly, lack of seasonal variation has been …

Se analizan los datos de 996 matrimonios fueguinos contraídos desde finales del pasado
siglo hasta 1965. En ese intervalo de tiempo tres cuartas partes de los maridos han sido de …

The seasonality of births in the period 1871–1977 is studied in a rural north-western
Spanish population. Based on a total sample of 11,695 birth registrations, temporal variation …

The monthly distribution of live births were analyzed over a 26-year period, 1945-1970, for a
rural Zapotec-speaking community in Oaxaca, Mexico. Monthly distributions of births …

Background and aim: Several seasonal variations have been found in birth rates in different
countries at different periods. The characteristics of the rhythmic patterns vary according to …

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar la estacionalidad de los nacimientos ocurridos
durante treinta años. El enfoque es de ecología humana, ya que el autor toma en cuenta …

Human birth seasonality is a worldwide phenomenon (Cowgill 1966; Becker 1991; Lam and
Miron 1994). The causes seem to vary, but most attention has been paid to characteristics of …

Objectives The goal of the present research is to establish for the first time a hierarchy of
sociodemographic factors according to their importance influencing birth seasonality …