UCL Anthropology Research in the Media: ‘Why, as people get richer, do they have fewer children?’
31 August 2012
Research
carried out by Dr
David Lawson from UCL Anthropology in collaboration with Dr Anna
Goodman (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and Professor Ilona
Koupil (Centre for Health Equity Studies, Stockholm) has been reported in the
media, including articles in the Economist and New Scientist. Their research
published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological
Sciences, tests
current theories of why, as human populations get richer, do they start having
less children?
To find our more see the links below.
Reference: Goodman, A. Koupil, I. & Lawson D.W. (2012) Low fertility increases descendant socioeconomic position but reduces long-term fitness in a modern post-industrial society. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.1415
