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Environmental influences on human fertility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 September 2011

Alan S. Parkes
Alan S. Parkes
Affiliation:
Galton Foundation, 69 Eccleston Square, London, S.W.1
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The word environment is here used to mean the total environment, physical and social, which for man means primarily the climatic and cultural conditions under which he lives and breeds. Fertility is used in the demographic sense of reproductive performance as contrasted with fecundity, or potential reproductive capacity.

Type
Physiological and environmental aspects
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 3 , supplement S3: Biosocial Aspects of Human Fertility , 1971 , pp. 13 - 28
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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