Description:
This is the first book to fully examine, from an evolutionary point of view, the association of social status and fertility in human societies before, during, and after the demographic transition.
Review Quotes:
"Researchers have been finding more and more evidence that, among and within countries that have already passed through what's generally called demographic transition, the old, positive relationship between status and affluence on the one hand and number of children on the other is beginning to reestablish itself...In Not So Weird After All: The Changing Relationship Between Status and Fertility, sociologist Rosemary L. Hopcroft of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and anthropologists Martin Fieder and Susanne Huber of the University of Vienna look at the evolutionary background and implications of the change."
Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion columnist, former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, and author of The Myth of the Rational Market (2010).