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urn:uuid:15df404f-ab6a-491a-8fb0-1293fe105097 03 01 01 urn:uuid:15df404f-ab6a-491a-8fb0-1293fe105097 15 9781800641723 06 10.11647/OBP.0251 00 EB E107 10 Creative Commons License 02 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 01 01 Human Evolutionary Demography 1 B01 21 0000-0002-7552-5851 Oskar Burger 2 B01 21 0000-0001-9755-0436 Ronald Lee 3 B01 21 0000-0002-4315-0223 Rebecca Sear 01 eng 00 780 03 20 Human evolutionary demography 12 J 93 JB 04 QH355 B2 Science: Applied Science 10 SOC000000 20 Interdisciplinary 12 JH 93 JHM B2 Politics and Sociology 10 SOC002000 20 Demographic patterns 93 JHMC 12 JHMC 10 SOC002010 20 Evolutionary processes 12 JHBD 93 JHBD 10 SOC006000 20 Social science 20 Evolutionary theory 03 00 Human evolutionary demography is an emerging field blending natural science with social science. This edited volume provides a much-needed, interdisciplinary introduction to the field and highlights cutting-edge research for interested readers and researchers in demography, the evolutionary behavioural sciences, biology, and related disciplines. By bridging the boundaries between social and biological sciences, the volume stresses the importance of a unified understanding of both in order to grasp past and current demographic patterns. Demographic traits, and traits related to demographic outcomes, including fertility and mortality rates, marriage, parental care, menopause, and cooperative behavior are subject to evolutionary processes. Bringing an understanding of evolution into demography therefore incorporates valuable insights into this field; just as knowledge of demography is key to understanding evolutionary processes. By asking questions about old patterns from a new perspective, the volume—composed of contributions from established and early-career academics—demonstrates that a combination of social science research and evolutionary theory offers holistic understandings and approaches that benefit both fields. Human Evolutionary Demography introduces an emerging field in an accessible style. It is suitable for graduate courses in demography, as well as upper-level undergraduates. Its range of research is sure to be of interest to academics working on demographic topics (anthropologists, sociologists, demographers), natural scientists working on evolutionary processes, and disciplines which cross-cut natural and social science, such as evolutionary psychology, human behavioral ecology, cultural evolution, and evolutionary medicine. As an accessible introduction, it should interest readers whether or not they are currently familiar with human evolutionary demography. 04 00 Acknowledgements 1. Human Evolutionary Demography: Introduction and Rationale Section 1: The Rationale, Motivations and Questions in Human Evolutionary Demography 2. Evolution in the History of Population Thought 3. A Biologist’s Perspective on Human Evolutionary Demography 4. Anthropological and Evolutionary Demography Section 2: Evolutionary Ecology and Demography 5. Controversies and Unfinished Business in Hadza Demography and Evolutionary Ecology 6. Ecological Evolutionary Demography: Understanding Variation in Demographic Behaviour 7. Contextual Effects on Fertility and Mortality: Complementary Contributions from Demography and Evolutionary Life History Theory Section 3: Evolutionary Demography Through Tinbergen’s Eyes 8. Why Do We Do What We Do? Analysing the Evolutionary Function of Reproductive Behaviour 9. My Family and Other Animals: Human Demography Under a Comparative Cross-Species Lens 10. The Role of Ontogeny in Understanding Human Demographic Behaviour 11. How It Works: The Biological Mechanisms that Generate Demographic Diversity Section 4: Genetic Evolutionary Demography 12. Genetic Evolutionary Demography 13. Genetics and Reproductive Behaviour: A Review Section 5: The Measurement and Interpretation of Selection and Fitness 14. Measuring Selection for Quantitative Traits in Human Populations 15. Demographic Sources of Variation in Fitness 16. Ageing in the Wild, Residual Demography and Discovery of a Stationary Population Equality 17. Human Mortality from Beginning to End: What Does Natural Selection Have to Do with It? Section 6: Evolution of the Human Life Cycle 18. Sociality, Food Sharing, and the Evolution of Life Histories 19. Evolutionary Demography of the Great Apes 20. Did Grandmothers Enhance Reproductive Success in Historic Populations?: Testing Evolutionary Theories on Historical Demographic Data in Scandinavia and North America 21. The Challenges of Evolutionary Biodemography and the Example of Menopause Section 7: Evolutionary Demography of Family Structures, Households and Cultural Transmission 22. A Theory of Culture for Evolutionary Demography 23. Bateman’s Principles and the Study of Evolutionary Demography 24. What Are Couples Made of? Union Formation in High-income Societies 25. Cooperation and Competition Begin at Home: Bridging Household Ecology and Human Evolutionary Demography 26. Historical Family Reconstitution Databases in the Study of Kinship Influences on Demographic Outcomes Section 8: Evolutionary Demography of Population Health and Human Well-Being 27. The Impact of Social Dynamics on Life History Trajectory and Demographic Traits: Insights from the “Producer-Scrounger” Game 28. Pathways of Density Dependence and Natural Selection in Modern Humans 29. Evolutionary Approaches to Population Health: Insights on Polygynous Marriage, “Child Marriage” and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting 30. The Biodemography of Human Health in Contemporary Non-industrial Populations: Insights from the Tsimane Health and Life History Project 31. Trade-Offs between Mortality Components in Life History Evolution: The Case of Cancers 32. Human Evolutionary Demography: Closing Thoughts Index 20 00 Open Access Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers Cambridge, UK 04 01 20240614 13 15 9781800641716 09 Open Book Publishers 29 Publisher's website: download the title https://books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp.0251.pdf 99 01 09 Open Book Publishers 02 Publisher's website: web shop https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0251 99 01