Biodemography of Human Reproduction and Fertility

Joseph Lee Rodgers is a Robert Glenn Rapp Foundation Presidential Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA. Hans-Peter Kohler is Head of Research Group on Social Dynamics and Fertility, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.

• I Biodemography and Fertility: Bio-Evolutionary Models.- 1 Anorexia: A “Dis-ease” of Low, Low Fertility.- 2 Is Phenotypic Plasticity Adaptive?.- 3 The Role of Nurturant Schemas in Human Reproduction.- II Biodemography and Fertility: Evolutionary Life History Models.- 4 Nonmarital First Births and Women’s Life Histories.- 5 Energetics, Fecundity, and Human Life History.- 6 The Biodemography of Modern Women: Tradeoffs When Resources Become Limiting.- 7 A Life History Approach to Fertility Rates in Rural Gambia: Evidence for Trade-offs or Phenotypic Correlations?.- III Biodemography and Fertility: Genetic Models.- 8 Genetic and Shared Environmental Influences on Adolescents’ Timing of First Sexual Intercourse: The Moderating Effect of Time Spent with a Sibling.- 9 Evidence of an Emerging Collision between the Fertility Transition and Genotype-Dependent Fertility Differentials.- 10 Evidence of Decreased Fertility in Women Carrying the Gene for G6PD deficiency: A Study in the Sardinian Population.- 11 The Impact of Intergenerationally-Transmitted Fertility and Nuptiality on Population Dynamics in Contemporary Populations.- Chaper 12 Genetic Variance in Human Fertility: Biology, Psychology, or Both?.

"This book should give readers a lot of new ideas with which to approach their own research problems, including up-to-date literature reviews in fields outside their own fields. It would be a great choice for a journal-club-like course in which students and faculty can hash out the issues and the consequences of better data or different statistical methods." (American Journal of Human Biology, 16:1 (2004)