Dynamics of Human Reproduction
Subtitle: Biology, Biometry, Demography
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 669
ISBN-13: 9780203792780
Subjects: Birth intervals; Human Fertility; Human reproduction; Intervalles génésiques; Fécondité humaine; Reproduction humaine
Description: "Awarded the W.W. Howells Award for the Outstanding Book in Biological Anthropology, this volume presents a comprehensive, integrated, and up-to-date overview of the major physiological and behavioral factors affecting human reproduction. In attempting to identify the most important causes of variation in fertility within and among human populations, Wood summarizes data from a wide range of societies. Trained as an anthropologist as well as a demographer, he devotes special attention to so-called ""natural fertility"" populations, in which modern contraceptives and induced abortion are not used to limit reproductive output. Such an emphasis enables him to study the interaction of biology and behavior with particular clarity. The volume weaves together the physiological, demographic, and biometric approaches to human fertility in a way that will encourage future interdisciplinary research. Instead of offering a general overview, the focus is to answer one question: Why does fertility and the number of live births vary from couple to couple within any particular population, and from population to population across the human species as a whole?Topics covered include ovarian function, conception and pregnancy, intrauterine mortality, reproductive maturation and senescence, coital frequency and the waiting time to conception, marriage patterns and the initiation of reproduction, the fertility-reducing effects of breastfeeding, the impact of maternal nutrition on reproduction, and reproductive seasonality. This unique combination of comprehensive subject matter and an integrated analytical approach makes the book ideally suited both as a graduate-level textbook and as a reference work."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Part Part I: Natural Fertility; title: chapter 1 Introduction; title: chapter 2 Patterns of Natural Fertility; title: chapter 3 Frameworks for Analyzing the Determinants of Natural Fertility; title: part Part II: The Proximate Determinants of Natural Fertility; title: chapter 4 Ovarian Cycles and the Fertile Period; title: chapter 5 Conception, Implantation, and Pregnancy; title: chapter 6 Fetal Loss; title: chapter 7 Fecundability and Coital Frequency; title: chapter 8 Breastfeeding and Postpartum Infecundability; title: chapter 9 Menarche and Menopause; title: chapter 10 The Onset of Permanent Sterility; title: chapter 11 Marriage and the Male Contribution; title: part Part III: Beyond The Proximate Determinants; title: chapter 12 Extensions and Elaborations.