Acknowledgements
1. Human Evolutionary Demography: Introduction and Rationale
Section 1: The Rationale, Motivations and Questions in Human Evolutionary Demography
2. Evolution in the History of Population Thought
3. A Biologist's Perspective on Human Evolutionary Demography
4. Anthropological and Evolutionary Demography
Section 2: Evolutionary Ecology and Demography
5. Controversies and Unfinished Business in Hadza Demography and Evolutionary Ecology
6. Ecological Evolutionary Demography: Understanding Variation in Demographic Behaviour
7. Contextual Effects on Fertility and Mortality: Complementary Contributions from Demography and Evolutionary Life History Theory
Section 3: Evolutionary Demography Through Tinbergen's Eyes
8. Why Do We Do What We Do? Analysing the Evolutionary Function of Reproductive Behaviour
9. My Family and Other Animals: Human Demography Under a Comparative Cross-Species Lens
10. The Role of Ontogeny in Understanding Human Demographic Behaviour
11. How It Works: The Biological Mechanisms that Generate Demographic Diversity
Section 4: Genetic Evolutionary Demography
12. Genetic Evolutionary Demography
13. Genetics and Reproductive Behaviour: A Review
Section 5: The Measurement and Interpretation of Selection and Fitness
14. Measuring Selection for Quantitative Traits in Human Populations
15. Demographic Sources of Variation in Fitness
16. Ageing in the Wild, Residual Demography and Discovery of a Stationary Population Equality
17. Human Mortality from Beginning to End: What Does Natural Selection Have to Do with It?
Section 6: Evolution of the Human Life Cycle
18. Sociality, Food Sharing, and the Evolution of Life Histories
19. Evolutionary Demography of the Great Apes
20. Did Grandmothers Enhance Reproductive Success in Historic Populations?: Testing Evolutionary Theories on Historical Demographic Data in Scandinavia and North America
21. The Challenges of Evolutionary Biodemography and the Example of Menopause
Section 7: Evolutionary Demography of Family Structures, Households and Cultural Transmission
22. A Theory of Culture for Evolutionary Demography
23. Bateman's Principles and the Study of Evolutionary Demography
24. What Are Couples Made of? Union Formation in High-income Societies
25. Cooperation and Competition Begin at Home: Bridging Household Ecology and Human Evolutionary Demography
26. Historical Family Reconstitution Databases in the Study of Kinship Influences on Demographic Outcomes
Section 8: Evolutionary Demography of Population Health and Human Well-Being
27. The Impact of Social Dynamics on Life History Trajectory and Demographic Traits: Insights from the "Producer-Scrounger" Game
28. Pathways of Density Dependence and Natural Selection in Modern Humans
29. Evolutionary Approaches to Population Health: Insights on Polygynous Marriage, "Child Marriage" and Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting
30. The Biodemography of Human Health
in Contemporary Non-industrial Populations: Insights from the Tsimane Health and Life History Project
31. Trade-Offs between Mortality Components in Life History Evolution: The Case of Cancers
32. Human Evolutionary Demography: Closing Thoughts
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