While it is commonly assumed that farmers have higher, and foragers lower, fertility
compared to populations practicing other forms of subsistence, robust supportive evidence …

Fertility variation, defined as a difference in the ability to create progeny (ie, reproductive
success) among individuals, was reviewed using the related available theoretical and …

Demography plays an important role in domains related to socio-cultural complexity,
subsistence strategies, and cultural ecology. Although the Middle Ages in Central Europe …

Introduction The role of “luck” in determining individual exposure to health insults is a critical
component of the processes that shape age‐at‐death distributions in mortality samples but …

This paper aims to provide a methodological approach to identify potential bias in cemetery
sample age‐at‐death distributions and provide an alternative way to report fertility despite …

The growth and fertility rates of past populations can be estimated by analyzing the age-at-
death distribution of skeletal samples. The procedure involves regressing growth or fertility …