Demography and Nutrition: Evidence from Historical and Contemporary Populations

by Stuart Scott Duncan, Christopher J. Duncan, Susan Scott

This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today. Demography and Nutrition takes an interdisciplinary approach, involving time-series analyses, mathematical modelling, aggregative analysis and family reconstitution as well as analysis of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0632059834
• ISBN13: 9780632059836
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 9.9"