"Carefully edited.... This volume could be used as a supplement in an upper-division course in human biology,
biological anthropology, and demography."
--American Journal of Human Biology
Publisher Web Site, March, 2004
Summary
Human Population Dynamics introduces theoretical frameworks and methodologies from different traditional disciplines
to demonstrate how changes in human population structure can be addressed from several different academic perspectives.
The book contains contributions from world-renowned researchers in demography, social and biological anthropology,
genetics, biology, sociology, ecology, history and human geography. In particular, the contributors emphasize the
lability of many population structures and boundaries, as viewed from their area of expertise.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction Helen Macbeth and Paul Collinson
2. Demographic perspectives on human population dynamics Andrew Hinde
3. The growing concentration of world population from 1950 to 2050 John I. Clarke
4. Population, community and society in peasant societies Robert Layton
5. From genetic variation to population dynamics: insights into the biological understanding of humans Jaume Betranpetit
and Francesc Calafell
6. Social institutions and demographic regimes in non-industrial societies: a comparative approach Richard Smith
7. The dynamics of child survival Emily K. Rousham and Louise T. Humphrey
8. Genetic structure of south Indian caste populations: a confluence of biology and culture L. B. Jorde, M. J.
Bamshad, W. S. Watkins, C. E. Ricker, M. E. Dixon, B. B. Rao, B. V. R. Prasad and J. M. Naidu
9. Fertility, mortality and migration transitions in association with socioeconomic modernisation among highland
minority populations in South East Asia Peter Kunstadter
10. Ecology, homeostasis and survival in human population dynamics Robert Attenborough