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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 | |