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The Limits to Low Fertility: A Biosocial Approach

2000-06-01

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In light of 30 years of below‐replacement fertility in many industrialized societies, demographers are asking whether fertility could drop even further, or whether there is a “floor” below which it will not fall. A key unanswered question is whether there may be a variable biological component to fertility motivation which ensures that we continue to reproduce. Drawing on evidence from evolutionary biology, etholo...

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Literature Corpus work: 5623fb32-6aba-5528-b437-70025a8b1f59
DOI: 10.1111/j.1728-4457.2000.00209.x

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