Human Reproduction
In: Studies in family planning: a publication of the Population Council, Band 3, Heft 5, S. 85
ISSN: 1728-4465
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In: Studies in family planning: a publication of the Population Council, Band 3, Heft 5, S. 85
ISSN: 1728-4465
In: Reproductive sciences: RS : the official journal of the Society for Reproductive Investigation, Band 14, Heft 5, S. 405-424
ISSN: 1933-7205
In: Studies in family planning: a publication of the Population Council, Band 10, Heft 8/9, S. 255
ISSN: 1728-4465
In: Population and development review, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 707
ISSN: 1728-4457
In: Annual review of anthropology, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 347-374
ISSN: 1545-4290
▪ Abstract Evolutionary ecology of human reproduction is defined as the application of natural selection theory to the study of human reproductive strategies and decision-making in an ecological context. The basic Darwinian assumption is that humans—like all other organisms—are designed to maximize their inclusive fitness within the ecological constraints to which they are exposed. Life history theory, which identifies trade-off problems in reproductive investment, and evolutionary physiology and psychology, which analyzes the adaptive mechanisms regulating reproduction, are two crucial tools of evolutionary reproductive ecology. Advanced empirical insights have been obtained mainly with respect to the ecology of fecundity, fertility, child-care strategies, and differential parental investment. Much less is known about the ecology of nepotism and the postgenerative life span. The following three theoretical aspects, which are not well understood, belong to the desiderata of future improvement in evolutionary human reproductive ecology: (a) the significance of and the interactions between different levels of adaptability (genetic, ontogenetic, and contextual) for the adaptive solution of reproductive problems; (b) the dialectics of constraints and adaptive choices in reproductive decisions; and (c) the dynamics of demographic change.
In: The coordinator, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 33
ISSN: 1540-8256
In: Peripherie: Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, Band 10, Heft 38, S. 89-91
ISSN: 0173-184X, 0173-184X
In: Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory/Revue canadienne de theorie politique et sociale, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 102-108
In: Canadian journal of political science: CJPS = Revue canadienne de science politique : RCSP, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 630-631
ISSN: 0008-4239
In: Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Band 17, Heft 2, S. 236