Cultural niche construction and the evolution of small family size

DOI10.1016/J.TPB.2003.07.003MaRDI QIDQ851343zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Yasuo Ihara, Marcus W. Feldman

Publication date 20 November 2006

Published in Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tpb.2003.07.003

zbMATH Keywords

Background predispositionBiasCultural backgroundCultural transmissionCultureDemographic transitionEducationFertility-reducing preferenceOblique transmission

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Models of societies, social and urban evolution (91D10) Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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