Darwin beats malthus: evolutionary anthropology, human capital and the demographic transition

Cliometrics and the Study of German History

“…Siuda and Sunde (2021) add to the growing field of persistence studies in that they suggest the fertility transition set in earlier at places more severely suffering from the medieval plague. Finally,Mühlhoff's (2022) approach strengthens the Princeton view's critiques by offering a culture-free explanation of the fertility transition by comparing different countries in the long 19 th century (including Germany) and combining evolutionary biology and unified growth theory.…”