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Human population dynamics : cross-disciplinary perspectives /

Human Population Dynamics is an introductory text demonstrating how changes in human population structure can be addressed from multi-disciplinary perspectives. As such, it contains contributions from specialists in demography, social and biological anthropology, genetics, biology, sociology, ecolog...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Macbeth, Helen M., Collinson, Paul, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Colección:Biosocial Society symposium series ; 14.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the framework of studying human population dynamics / Helen Macbeth and Paul Collinson
  • Demographic perspectives on human population dynamics / Andrew Hinde
  • The growing concentration of world population from 1950 to 2050 / John I. Clarke
  • Population, community and society in peasant societies / Robert Layton
  • From genetic variation to population dynamics: insights into the biological understanding of humans / Jaume Bertranpetit and Francesc Calafell
  • Social institutions and demographic regimes in non-industrial societies: a comparative approach / Richard Smith
  • The dynamics of child survival / Emily K. Rousham and Louise T. Humphrey
  • Genetic structure of south Indian caste populations: a confluence of biology and culture / L.B Jorde [and others]
  • Fertility, mortality and migration transitions in association with socioeconomic modernization among highland minority populations in Southeast Asia / Peter Kunstadter
  • Ecology, homeostasis and survival in human population dynamics / Robert Attenborough.