Population in the Human Sciences

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PART I. POPULATION IN THE HUMAN SCIENCES: AN INTRODUCTION Introduction PART II. WHAT IS A POPULATION? 1. Population and the Making of the Human Sciences: An Historical Outline 2. Population Genetics: The Study of the Genetic Structure of Human Populations 3. Populations in Statistical Genetic Modelling and Inference 4. Population Heterogeneity in the Spotlight of Biodemography PART III. RETHINKING INTRA- AND INTER-POPULATION DYNAMICS 5. Niche Construction in Human Evolution and Demography 6. Populations for Studying the Causes of Britain's Fertility Decline: Communication Communities 7. The Social and the Sexual: Networks in Contemporary Demographic Research 8. Populations are Composed One Event at a Time PART IV. MECHANISMS OF LOCAL LEVEL VARIATION AND CHANGE OF STATE 9. Networks, Strata, and Ageing: Towards a Compositional Demography of Vulnerability 10. Constructing Migration in Southeast Asia: Conceptual, Empirical, and Policy Issues 11. Collective Identities, Shifting Population Membership, and Niche Construction Theory: Implications from Taiwanese and Chinese Empirical Evidence 12. The Causal Relationship between Fertility and Infant Mortality: Prospective Analyses of a Population in Transition PART V. CONSTRUCTING POPULATIONS IN THE LONG TERM 13. Genetics and the Reconstruction of African Population History 14. Species, Populations, and Groups in Hominin Evolution 15. Residence Patterns and the Human-Ecological Setting in Historical Eastern Europe: A Challenge of Compositional (Re)analysis 16. Linking Late-Imperial and Early Modern Population Dynamics in the Lower Yangzi Valley: An Analysis of Xiaoji Township PART VI. IDENTIFYING SUB-POPULATIONS FOR DISEASE TREATMENT AND CONTROL 17. From Populations to Clines in Modern Statistical Genetics 18. Population Structure and Public Health Research on HIV Control in Sub-Saharan Africa 19. Interventions in Context 20. Hormones and Disease: Contested Knowledge of Exogenous Hormones in the Evaluation of Oral Contraceptives and Hormone Replacement Therapy

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