Demography and nutrition : evidence from historical and contemporary populations /

This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today. Demography and Nutrition takes an in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Scott, Susan, 1953-
Other Authors: Duncan, C. J. (Christopher John)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Science, 2002.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today. Demography and Nutrition takes an interdisciplinary approach, involving time-series analyses, mathematical modelling, aggregative analysis and family reconstitution as well as analysis of data series from Third World countries in the 20th Century. Contents include details and analysis of mortality oscillations, food supplies, famine.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 369 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-362) and index.
ISBN:1405123370
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