Format:
1 Online-Ressource (670 pages)
Edition:
1st ed
ISBN:
9781351521475
Series Statement:
Evolutionary Foundations of Human Behavior
Content:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Natural Fertility -- 1. Introduction -- Natural Fertility -- The Human Reproductive Pattern -- Why the Emphasis on Females -- Notes -- Figures -- 2. Patterns of Natural Fertility -- Measures of Fertility -- Levels of Natural Fertility -- Intrapopulation Variation in Natural Fertility -- Patterns in Parity Progression Ratios -- The Age Pattern of Natural Fertility -- A Model of Natural Fertility and Fertility Control -- Summary -- Notes -- Figures -- 3. Frameworks for Analyzing the Determinants of Natural Fertility -- The Pace of Childbearing -- The Proximate Determinants of Fertility -- Bongaarts's Decomposition of the Proximate Determinants -- An Alternative Approach -- Analytical Issues in the Study of Birth-Interval Components -- Summary -- Notes -- Figures -- Part II: The Proximate Determinants of Natural Fertility -- 4. Ovarian Cycles and the Fertile Period -- Major Features of the Human Ovarian Cycle -- The Life Cycle of the Female Germ Cell -- Follicular Development and Ovulation -- Neuroendocrine Regulation of the Ovarian Cycle -- Intrapopulation Variation in Ovarian Cycles -- Interpopulation Variation in Ovarian Cycles -- Do Women in Natural-Fertility Populations 138 Experience Regular Ovarian Cycles -- The Fertile Period -- Notes -- Figures -- 5. Conception, Implantation, and Pregnancy -- The Sperm Cell and Spermatogenesis -- Fertilization -- Implantation and Embryogenesis -- The Endocrinology of Pregnancy -- The Physiological Costs of Pregnancy -- Parturition -- The Biometry of Pregnancy -- Notes -- Figures -- 6. Fetal Loss -- Sources of Data on Fetal Loss -- The Fertility-Reducing Effect of Fetal Loss -- The Expected Number of Fetal Deaths in Each Birth Interval
Content:
The Relationship between Maternal Age and the Risk of Fetal Loss -- Length of Gestation Ending in Fetal Loss -- The Duration of Residual Infecundability Following Each Fetal Death -- The Total Impact of Fetal Loss -- The Etiology of Fetal Loss -- Notes -- Figures -- 7. Fecundability and Coital Frequency -- Fecundability and the Distribution of Conception Waits -- Empirical Estimates of Fecundability and Conception Waits -- Fecundability and Age -- Models of Fecundability -- Empirical Patterns of Intercourse -- Assessing the Impact of Observed Coital Patterns -- Notes -- Figures -- 8. Breastfeeding and Postpartum Infecundability -- The Physiology of Lactation -- The Contraceptive Effect of Breastfeeding -- The Neuroendocrine Control of Lactational Infecundability -- Durations of Lactational Infecundability: Empirical Distributions and Models -- Suckling Patterns and Lactational Infecundability -- Is Nocturnal Breastfeeding of Special Importance -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Figures -- 9. Menarche and Menopause -- The Biology of Menarche -- The Biology of Menopause -- Differentials and Trends in Menarche and Menopause -- Notes -- Figures -- 10. The Onset of Permanent Sterility -- Problems of Definition -- The Biology of Sterility -- Analytical Issues -- Estimators of Permanent Sterility -- Sterility and the Age Pattern of Natural Fertility -- Notes -- Figures -- 11. Marriage and the Male Contribution -- Marriage and Fertility -- The Male Contribution -- Notes -- Figures -- Part III: Beyond The Proximate Determinants -- 12. Extensions and Elaborations -- How Does the Reproductive Process Work? -- The Relative Effects of the Proximate Determinants -- How Do the Proximate Determinants Interact -- More Remote Influences -- Some Final Thoughts -- Notes -- Figures -- Appendix: An Introduction to Quantitative Endocrinology -- References
Content:
Index
Additional Edition:
9780202011790
Additional Edition:
Print version Wood, James W Dynamics of Human Reproduction : Biology, Biometry, Demography Somerset : Taylor and Francis,c1994 9780202011790
Language:
English
