Cultural evolutionists have long been interested in the problem of why fertility declines as
populations develop. By outlining plausible mechanistic links between individual decision …

Decades of research on human fertility has presented a clear picture of how fertility varies,
including its dramatic decline over the last two centuries in most parts of the world. Why …

Using data from the first Census data set that includes complete measures of male biological
fertility for a large-scale probability sample of the US population (the 2014 wave of the Study …

The idea that trade-offs between offspring quantity and quality shape reproductive behaviour
has long been central to economic perspectives on fertility. It also has a parallel and richer …

Is fertility relevant to evolutionary analyses conducted in modern industrial societies? This
question has been the subject of a highly contentious debate, beginning in the late 1980s …

Humans are shaped by evolution through natural selection, as are all species. While
evolution is central to all biological processes, the key stage for competition and selection is …

Fertility decline in human populations is an inherent evolutionary puzzle with major
demographic, socio-cultural and evolutionary consequences. The individual level predictors …

The role that social status plays in small-scale societies suggests that status may be
important for understanding the evolution of human fertility decisions, and for understanding …

Selection and the Descent of Man through its expansive application to research in the
evolutionary psychological sciences. I begin with an abridged redux of the theory's claims …

Studies of the association between wealth and fertility in industrial populations have a rich
history in the evolutionary literature, and they have been used to argue both for and against …