Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by G.A. Harrison
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: the framework of studying human population dynamics
- 2 Demographic perspectives on human population dynamics
- 3 The growing concentration of world population from 1950 to 2050
- 4 Population, community and society in peasant societies
- 5 From genetic variation to population dynamics: insights into the biological understanding of humans
- 6 Social institutions and demographic regimes in non-industrial societies: a comparative approach
- 7 The dynamics of child survival
- 8 Genetic structure of south Indian caste populations: a confluence of biology and culture
- 9 Fertility, mortality and migration transitions in association with socioeconomic modernisation among highland minority populations in Southeast Asia
- 10 Ecology, homeostasis and survival in human population dynamics
- Glossary
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by G.A. Harrison
- Preface
- 1 Introduction: the framework of studying human population dynamics
- 2 Demographic perspectives on human population dynamics
- 3 The growing concentration of world population from 1950 to 2050
- 4 Population, community and society in peasant societies
- 5 From genetic variation to population dynamics: insights into the biological understanding of humans
- 6 Social institutions and demographic regimes in non-industrial societies: a comparative approach
- 7 The dynamics of child survival
- 8 Genetic structure of south Indian caste populations: a confluence of biology and culture
- 9 Fertility, mortality and migration transitions in association with socioeconomic modernisation among highland minority populations in Southeast Asia
- 10 Ecology, homeostasis and survival in human population dynamics
- Glossary
- Index
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- Information
- Human Population DynamicsCross-Disciplinary Perspectives, pp. 218 - 224Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002