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List of Contributors Preface Part I BIODEMOGRAPHY AND FERTILITY: BIO-EVOLUTIONARY MODELS Chapter 1 Anorexia: A "Dis-ease" of Low, Low Fertility Linda Mealey Chapter 2 Is Phenotypic Plasticity Adaptive? Kimberly A. Hughes, Mary H. Burleson, & F. Helen Rodd Chapter 3 The Role of Nurturant Schemas in Human Reproduction Warren B. Miller Part II BIODEMOGRAPHY AND FERTILITY: EVOLUTIONARY LIFE HISTORY MODELS Chapter 4 Nonmarital First Births and Women's Life Histories Kermyt G. Anderson & Bobbi S. Low Chapter 5 Energetics, Fecundity, and Human Life History Claudia Valeggia & Peter T. Ellison Chapter 6 The Biodemography of Modern Women: Tradeoffs When Resources Become Limiting Bobbi S. Low, Kermyt G. Anderson, & Carl P. Simon Chapter 7 A Life History Approach to Fertility Rates in Rural Gambia: Evidence for Trade-offs or Phenotypic Correlations? Rebecca Sear, Ruth Mace, & Ian A. McGregor Part III BIODEMOGRAPHY AND FERTILITY: GENETIC MODELS Chapter 8 Genetic and Shared Environmental Influences on Adolescents' Timing of First Sexual Intercourse: The Moderating Effect of Time Spent with a Sibling Cathleen B. Hunt & David C. Rowe Chapter 9 Evidence of an Emerging Collision between the Fertility Transition and Genotype-Dependent Fertility Differentials James MacMurray, Amanda Madrid, Egidio Bottini, Donn Muhleman, & David Comings Chapter 10 Evidence of Decreased Fertility in Women Carrying the Gene for G6PD deficiency: A Study in the Sardinian Population Fulvia Gloria-Bottini, Gianfranco F. Meloni, James MacMurray, Ermelando Cosmi, Tullio Meloni, & Egidio Bottini Chapter 11 The Impact of Intergenerationally-Transmitted Fertility and Nuptiality on Population Dynamics in Contemporary Populations Mike Murphy & Duolao Wang Chaper 12 Genetic Variance in Human Fertility: Biology, Psychology, or Both? Joseph Lee Rodgers, Hans-Peter Kohler, & Kaare Christensen