This is the first book to fully examine, from an evolutionary point of view, the association of social status and fertility in human societies before, during, and after the demographic transition.

Author: Rosemary L. Hopcroft, Martin Fieder, Susanne Huber
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/26/2024
Series: Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9781032732886

About the Author

Rosemary L. Hopcroft is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, U.S. She has published widely in the areas of evolutionary sociology and comparative and historical sociology in journals including the American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Evolution and Human Behavior, and Human Nature. She is the author of Evolution and Gender: Why it Matters for Contemporary Life (Routledge 2016), editor of The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society (2018) and co-author of The Handbook of Sex Differences (2023).

Martin Fieder is Associate Professor of Evolutionary Demography at the University of Vienna, Austria. He works in the field of evolution, fertility, social status, religion, and behavioral genetics. He has published in the field of evolutionary anthropology, evolutionary demographics and behavior genetics in a wide range of international journals such as Evolution and Human Behavior, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, BMC Evolutionary Biology, American Journal of Human Biology, Biosocial Sciences as well as in The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society (2018).

Susanne Huber is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology of the University of Vienna, Austria. She works on evolutionary explanations of human behavior, homogamy, and early life factor effects and has published in journals such as Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Evolution and Human Behavior, and Human Nature and in The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society (2018).