Genetical demography

Mather, Kenneth; Smith, Jennifer; Robertson, A.; Roberts, D. F.; Taylor, W.; Sutter, J.

doi:10.1098/rspb.1963.0070

Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B.

1963

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1963.0070

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Genetical demography

Kenneth Mather¹,

Jennifer Smith²,

A. Robertson³

et al.

Abstract: Demographic data can serve several purposes. At the least, they provide a picture of the population as it is, or has recently been, in respect of the feature or property at issue. Further, in so far as comparable data are collected over a period of time, they will reveal changes that the population is undergoing. Finally, as trends are recognized from the past, they provide a means of forecasting changes to be expected in the future; and the fuller the understanding that can be gained about past changes and th… Show more

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Human biology in Tlaxcala, Mexico: Demography

Halberstein

Crawford

1972

American J Phys Anthropol

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A demographic survey was conducted as part of an ongoing population study of large Mestizo and Indian communities in Tlaxcala, Mexico. Comparative data on population structure and movement, mate selection, age at marriage, differential fertility, and mortality were collected through the administration of a standardized demographic proforma, and then cross-tabulated by computer analysis. The resulting differences between the Indian and Mestizo populations are interpreted in terms of the relative importance of hybridization, natural selection, and genetic drift. Sizeable variance in achieved reproduction and the high neonatal mortality suggest the operation of natural selection in these two populations. Observed patterns of population movement and mate selection indicate that the Mestizo population of the city of Tlaxcala is highly hybridized, in contrast to the endogamous Indian community of San Pablo del Monte.

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Human biology in Tlaxcala, Mexico: Demography

Halberstein

Crawford

1972

American J Phys Anthropol

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A differential paradox: The controversy surrounding the Scottish mental surveys of intelligence and family size

Ramsden

2007

J History Behavioral Science

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In 1947, the Scottish Council for Research in Education and the Population Investigation Committee conducted a survey of Scottish schoolchildren, exploring the relations between tested intelligence and fertility. The survey was not only significant for its size, measuring the IQ of all 11-year-olds at school on the day of testing, some 80,805 children, but also because it was a repeat survey. Its purpose was to establish whether the intelligence of the population had declined because of the negative correlation between IQ and family size. The paper will explore how the impetus for the 1947 survey came from attempts to revive the fortunes of the eugenics movement, based upon the interdisciplinary study of population. While most expected the study to provide evidence of a decline in intelligence, it revealed an increase. This was in spite of a continuing process of differential fertility. This paper will explore the influence of these results, described as a "paradox," upon the future development of the eugenics movement and the sciences of population. While for many, the results were seen to have completely, and thankfully, undermined eugenic fears of degeneration, the supposed "resolution" of the paradox in 1962 provided the basis of a meritocratic and optimistic "new eugenics" that sought to reunite social and biological scientists concerned with human betterment in Britain and the United States.

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The sociobiological aspects of the National Survey on Fecundity and Fertility in Belgium

Rl¹

1969

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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In 1966, a National Survey on Fecundity and Fertility was organized in Belgium. Approximately 3000 married women under 41 years of age and living with their husbands were interviewed and asked about their reproductive histories. The present paper records the sociobiological aims and methods and some preliminary results of this survey. The aims were to:(1) study the influences of contraception on human needs and qualities, in this case mainly potential fecundity;(2) study the influence of attempts to increase the potential fecundity level in modern society on fecundity gene frequencies;(3) study the influences of the overall socio-cultural environment on fecundity and fertility variables with particular reference to differences in social status in Western society;(4) analyse the role of social assortment of fecundity and fertility variables on the biological structure, and possibly the composition, of modern populations.A relatively large, but far from complete body of data has been collected on a number of individual fecundity and fertility variables, on the medical processes employed to increase fecundity, on contraception, and on a number of conventional sociological and demographic variables.The principles underlying the present approach to the study of fecundity are explained, and a few preliminary results for one of the general fecundity classifications are shown.The infofmation collected on contraception has been qualitatively analysed and a correction and evaluation method is described. Data on the use of the different contraceptive methods show that substantial sections of the Belgian population are limiting their family size in a way which is inefficient, from both sexual and familial standpoints. 370 R. L. Cliquet

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Genetical demography

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Human biology in Tlaxcala, Mexico: Demography

Human biology in Tlaxcala, Mexico: Demography

A differential paradox: The controversy surrounding the Scottish mental surveys of intelligence and family size

The sociobiological aspects of the National Survey on Fecundity and Fertility in Belgium

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