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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Series Introduction | |
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| Of Populations and People | |
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| Life History: The Link between Demography and Growth | |
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| Why Do Anthropologists Study Human Growth and Demography? | |
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| Anthropological Perspective on HIV/AIDS | |
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| Biocultural Model of HIV/AIDS | |
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| Demographic Impact of HIV/AIDS | |
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| Economic Effects of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic | |
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| Impact of HIV/AIDS on Family Structure and Human Development | |
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| Integrated Study of Human Demography and Growth | |
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| "HIV/AIDS Is Among Us" | |
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| Human Growth in Biocultural Perspective | |
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| How Populations Grow: History, Methods, and Principles of Demography | |
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| Population Problem | |
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| Was There a Population Problem? | |
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| How Many People? | |
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| Human Population Size Today | |
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| Population Census | |
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| Using Census Data: Defining the Population | |
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| Using Census Data: The Life Table | |
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| Medical Example of the Use of Life Tables | |
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| Life Table Analsis of Growth and Development | |
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| From Malthus to Gompertz | |
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| Fall and Rise of Biodemography | |
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| Fertility and Mortality | |
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| Population Pyramids | |
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| Population Regulation: Limits to Population Growth | |
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| Biocultural Regulation of Human Fertility | |
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| Questions Found on a Modern Census | |
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| Social Regulation of Fertility in the Mormon Church | |
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| How People Grow | |
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| Basic Principles of Human Growth and Development | |
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| Stages in the Life Cycle | |
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| Evolution of the Human Life History | |
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| Human Life Cycle | |
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| Evolution of Human Life History: Growth and Demography | |
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| Evolution of Ontogeny | |
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| Case for De Novo Childhood | |
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| Human Childhood | |
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| How and When Did Human Childhood Evolve? | |
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| Who Benefits from Childhood? | |
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| Summary of Childhood | |
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| When and Why Did Adolescence Evolve? | |
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| Why Do Girls Have Adolescence, or Why Wait So Long to Have a Baby? | |
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| Why Do Boys Have Adolescence? | |
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| Summary of Adolescence | |
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| Postreproductive Life Stage | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Evolutionary Psychology of Childhood | |
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| Food, Demography, and Growth | |
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| Food for the Body and the Spirit | |
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| Nutrients Versus Food | |
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| Sources of Knowledge | |
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| Human Diet Evolution | |
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| Studies of Living Hunters and Gatherers | |
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| Summary of Evidence for the Evolution of Human Nutrition | |
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| Diet, Agricultural Development, and Demography | |
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| Conquest, Food, and Health | |
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| "Man or Maize": Which Came First? | |
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| Industrialization, Urbanization, and the Further Decline of Human Health | |
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| Demographic Transition | |
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| Progress? | |
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| Plagues and Progress | |
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| Diet and the Diseases of Modern Life | |
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| Electronic Revolution | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Conception of the People of Corn | |
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| Classification of Human Societies | |
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| Migration and Human Health | |
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| Rural-to-Urban Migration | |
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| Biology of the City | |
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| Urban Migration Since World War II | |
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| Are Cities Good or Bad for People? | |
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| Biocultural Research on Urban Adaptation | |
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| Growth and Development | |
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| Fertility and Demography | |
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| Three Case Studies of Migrant Fertility | |
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| Migrant Selection? | |
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| Health Status and Mortality | |
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| The U-Curve Model | |
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| Effects of Migration on the Remaining Population | |
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| Summary: Migration and Adaptation to the City | |
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| Biocultural View of Migration | |
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| Cape Verde: Migration and Morabeza | |
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| Migrations Caused by Droughts and Consequent Floods of Famine: Case of the Cape Verde Islands | |
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| Changing Family Structure in Cape Verde: Some Effects of Emigration on the Remaining Population | |
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| Growth of Humanity | |
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| Population Variation in Body Size | |
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| Population Variation in Demography | |
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| Mirror of Society | |
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| Evolutionary Background to Growth and Population Structure | |
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| Smaller Body Size Is Not a Genetic Adaptation | |
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| Plasticity in Growth and Demography | |
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| 8,000 Years of Human Growth in Latin America | |
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| Anthropometric History | |
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| Irish Famine | |
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| Desertification of Rural Portugal | |
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| Giants in the Americas? | |
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| Biology of Potato Blight | |
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| The Aging of Humanity | |
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| Japan: The Aging Sun | |
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| Biocultural Aging | |
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| Menopause, Aging, and Sexism | |
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| The Valuable Grandmother, or Could Menopause Evolve? | |
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| Wither Humanity? | |
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| Healthy People, Healthy Populations | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |