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The cultural norms of traditional societies encourage behavior that is consistent with maximizing reproductive success but those of modern post-demographic transition societies do not. Newson et al (2005) proposed that this might be because interaction between kin is relatively less frequent in modern social networks. Assuming that people's evaluations of reproductive decisions are influenced by a...
The radical shift in human reproduction in the late 19th century, known as the demographic transition, constitutes a major challenge to evolutionary approaches to human behaviour. Why would people ever choose to limit their reproduction voluntarily when, at the peak of the Industrial Revolution, resources were apparently so plentiful? Can the transition be attributed to standard life history tradeoffs,...
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