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Environmental influences on human fertility
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 September 2011
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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.
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- 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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