Recent work in quantitative biology has shown theoretically why Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection does not preclude genetic influences on fertility, sexuality, and related processes. Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality takes the next step, and presents a number of successful empirical searches for such genetic influence on a broad range of processes, such as puberty, marriage, sexual behavior, and twinning. Employing a broad range of methodological approaches, including molecular and behavioral genetics, this book weaves a new theoretical framework that shows how genes can help relate fertility planning to fertility outcome, and how puberty, sexuality, marriage, and reproduction can be conceptually linked through the genes that contribute to individual differences in the human process.
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Joseph Lee Rodgers is a Robert Glenn Rapp Foundation Presidential Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.
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Are humans genetically variable for fertility and fertility-related traits? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
implicit childbearing motivation, nurturant domain, negative childbearing motivation, positive childbearing motivation, mate diversification, completed reproductive histories, affection index, perceived fecundity, declining heritability, childbearing motivations, menarcheal timing, sibling pairs sample, evolutionary life history theory, menarcheal onset, shared environmental variation, fertility expectations, other fitness traits, kinship pairs, human fertility and sexuality, fertility motivations, expected family size, childbearing desires, menarcheal age, lifetime pregnancies, kin pairs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Human Biology, World War, Journal of Personality, Social Psychology, Bureau of the Census, Oxford University Press, Add Health, Social Biology, African American, Archives of General Psychiatry, Cohabitation Status, Journal of Biosocial Science, Joys of Pregnancy, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, Parental Stress, Personality Research Form, American Psychologist, Animal Behaviour, Hope Press, Instrumental Values of Children, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Parameter Estimate, Psychological Review New!
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implicit childbearing motivation, nurturant domain, negative childbearing motivation, positive childbearing motivation, mate diversification, completed reproductive histories, affection index, perceived fecundity, declining heritability, childbearing motivations, menarcheal timing, sibling pairs sample, evolutionary life history theory, menarcheal onset, shared environmental variation, fertility expectations, other fitness traits, kinship pairs, human fertility and sexuality, fertility motivations, expected family size, childbearing desires, menarcheal age, lifetime pregnancies, kin pairs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Human Biology, World War, Journal of Personality, Social Psychology, Bureau of the Census, Oxford University Press, Add Health, Social Biology, African American, Archives of General Psychiatry, Cohabitation Status, Journal of Biosocial Science, Joys of Pregnancy, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, Parental Stress, Personality Research Form, American Psychologist, Animal Behaviour, Hope Press, Instrumental Values of Children, National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, Parameter Estimate, Psychological Review New!
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- The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection by R. A. Fisher on page 30, and page 84
- Child Psychology by Ross Vasta on page 146, and page 230
- Child Development by A.Christine Harris on page 149
- Social Psychology: People in Groups by Bertram H. Raven on page 64
- No Easy Answers: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce Teen Pregnancy by Douglas Kirby on page 229
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