Table of Contents

1 Front Matter; 2 1. Biodemography of Fertility and Family Formation; 3 2. Genetic Influences on Fertility: Strengths and Limitations of Quantitative Inferences; 4 3. Education, Fertility, and Heritability: Explaining a Paradox; 5 4. The Neural Basis of Pair Bonding in a Monogamous Species: A Model for Understanding the Biological Basis of Human Behavior; 6 5. Hormonal Mediation of Physiological and Behavioral Processes That Influence Fertility; 7 6. Intraspection Variablity in Fertility and Offspring Survival in a Nonhuman Primate: Behavioral Control in Ecological and Social Sources; 8 7. An Evolutionary and Ecological Analysis of Human Fertility, Mating Patterns, and Parental Investment; 9 8. Sexually Antagonistic Coevolution: Theory, Evidence, and Implications for Patterns of Human Mating and Fertility; 10 9. Pubertal Maturation, Andrenarche, and the Onset of Reproduction in Human Males; 11 10. Energetics, Sociality, and Human Reproduction: Life History Theory in Real Life; 12 11. Evolutionary Biology and Rational Choice in Models of Fertility; 13 12. Reflections on Demographic, Evolutionary, and Genetic Approaches to the Study of Human Reproductive Behavior; 14 Contributors and Other Workshop Participants; 15 Index

About the Author

Panel for the Workshop on the Biodemography of Fertility and Family Behavior, Kenneth W. Wachter and Rodolfo A. Bulatao, Editors, National Research Council