ArticleScientific reports2011
Industrial energy use and the human life history.
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- Diversity begets diversity in mammal species and human cultures.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Extra-metabolic energy use and the rise in human hyper-density.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The Reproductive Ecology of Industrial Societies, Part I : Why Measuring Fertility Matters.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2016Article
- Life-history theory and climate change: resolving population and parental investment paradoxes.Royal Society open science · 2016Article
- What if fertility decline is not permanent? The need for an evolutionarily informed approach to understanding low fertility.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
- Wealth, fertility and adaptive behaviour in industrial populations.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2016Review
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- The natural science underlying big history.TheScientificWorldJournal · 2014Review
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Abstract
The demographic rates of most organisms are supported by the consumption of food energy, which is used to produce new biomass and fuel physiological processes. Unlike other species, modern humans use 'extra-metabolic' energy sources acquired independent of physiology, which also influence demographics. We ask whether the amount of extra-metabolic energy added to the energy budget affects demographic and life history traits in a predictable way. Currently it is not known how human demographics respond to energy use, and we characterize this response using an allometric approach. All of the human life history traits we examine are significant functions of per capita energy use across industrialized populations. We find a continuum of traits from those that respond strongly to the amount of extra-metabolic energy used, to those that respond with shallow slopes. We also show that the differences in plasticity across traits can drive the net reproductive rate to below-replacement levels.
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