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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020

Evolutionary dynamics of culturally transmitted, fertility-reducing traits.

Dominik Wodarz, Shaun Stipp, David Hirshleifer, Natalia L Komarova

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dominik WodarzDepartment of Population Health and Disease Prevention, Program in Public Health, Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
Shaun StippDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
David HirshleiferPaul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine, CA 92617, USA.
Natalia L KomarovaDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
University of California, Irvine · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human populations in many countries have undergone a phase of demographic transition, characterized by a major reduction in fertility at a time of increased resource availability. A key stylized fact is that the reduction in fertility is preceded by a reduction in mortality and a consequent increase in population density. Various theories have been proposed to account for the demographic transition process, including maladaptation, increased parental investment in fewer offspring, and cultural evolution. None of these approaches, including formal cultural evolutionary models of the demographic transitions, have addressed a possible direct causal relationship between a reduction in mortality and the subsequent decline in fertility. We provide mathematical models in which

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Biological EvolutionCultural EvolutionFertilityBirth RateEuropeFamily CharacteristicsHumansInfertilityModels, TheoreticalPopulation DynamicsReproductioncomputer simulationscultural evolutiondemographic transitionfertilitymathematical biology

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PMID32290801
PMCPMC7211447
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