Offspring:

Human Fertility Behavior in Biodemographic Perspective

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Publication Year:2003

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Panel for the Workshop on the Biodemography of Fertility and Family Behavior, Kenneth W. Wachter and Rodolfo A. Bulatao, Editors, National Research Council
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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 how biological processes might affect voluntary behavior choices that have demographic ...
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Front Matter	i-xviii
1. Biodemography of Fertility and Family Formation	1-17	(skim)
2. Genetic Influences on Fertility: Strengths and Limitations of Quantitative Inferences	18-45	(skim)
3. Education, Fertility, and Heritability: Explaining a Paradox	46-90	(skim)
4. The Neural Basis of Pair Bonding in a Monogamous Species: A Model for Understanding the Biological Basis of Human Behavior	91-103	(skim)
5. Hormonal Mediation of Physiological and Behavioral Processes That Influence Fertility	104-139	(skim)
6. Intraspection Variablity in Fertility and Offspring Survival in a Nonhuman Primate: Behavioral Control in Ecological and Social Sources	140-169	(skim)
7. An Evolutionary and Ecological Analysis of Human Fertility, Mating Patterns, and Parental Investment	170-223	(skim)
8. Sexually Antagonistic Coevolution: Theory, Evidence, and Implications for Patterns of Human Mating and Fertility	224-259	(skim)
9. Pubertal Maturation, Andrenarche, and the Onset of Reproduction in Human Males	260-288	(skim)
10. Energetics, Sociality, and Human Reproduction: Life History Theory in Real Life	289-321	(skim)
11. Evolutionary Biology and Rational Choice in Models of Fertility	322-338	(skim)
12. Reflections on Demographic, Evolutionary, and Genetic Approaches to the Study of Human Reproductive Behavior	339-357	(skim)
Contributors and Other Workshop Participants	358-364	(skim)
Index	365-379	(skim)

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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 how biological processes might affect voluntary behavior choices that have demographic consequences even though behavioral geneticists have documented genetics effects on variables such as parenting and divorce. Offspring: Human Fertility Behavior in Demographic Perspective brings together leading researchers from a wide variety of disciplines to review the state of research in this emerging field and to identify promising research directions for the future.

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"The contents of this book draw upon several disciplines, ranging from molecular biology to socioeconomic modeling. Together, they achieve the impressive feat of conveying a lot of information about the many facets of reproductive behavior while keeping the reader interested in finding an answer to the paradox. It is beyond the scope of this review to discuss each chapter individually, but I found them all to be of good quality and appropriate for inclusion within the book. ...several chapters provide the non-expert with excellent introductions to the field under review... In summary, Offspring is an excellent book."
-- Journal of Sex Research, February 1, 2004

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