The social sciences have been reticent to integrate a biodemographic approach to the study
of fertility choice and behaviour, resulting in theories and findings that are largely socially …

Is fertility relevant to evolutionary analyses conducted in modern industrial societies? This
question has been the subject of a highly contentious debate, beginning in the late 1980s …

The Dutch are the tallest people on earth. Over the last 200 years, they have grown 20 cm in
height: a rapid rate of increase that points to environmental causes. This secular trend in …

In most developed countries, the fertility levels of parents and children are positively
correlated. This article analyzes the strength of the intergenerational transmission of family …

Earlier work has shown that the association between the fertility of parents and the fertility of
children has become stronger over time in some societies. This article updates and …

The recent demographic transitions to lower mortality and fertility rates in most human
societies have led to changes and even quick reversals in phenotypic selection pressures …

It remains unknown how different types of sources affect the reconstruction of life courses
and families in large-scale databases increasingly common in demographic research. Here …

The phenotypic gambit is one of the crucial assumptions in evolutionary behavioral ecology:
it asserts that a phenotypic variation of a trait represents a reasonably adequate estimation …

BACKGROUND Ever since the Princeton European Fertility Project, structural and diffusion
effects on fertility behavior have been juxtaposed. However, we still hardly know what the …

For over a century, social scientists have predicted declines in religious beliefs and their
replacement with more scientific/naturalistic outlooks, a prediction known as the …