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Is demographic uniformity inevitable?

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Globalizing processes of industrialization and Westernization are creating a retreat from diversity in human experience. The paper discusses whether population trends are reinforcing this process and draws on findings about growth rates, the family and urbanization in Western countries. East and Southeast Asia and Latin America. The extent to which counterbalancing forces, including cultural resilience, are curbing homogenization is also examined.

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Jones, G.W. Is demographic uniformity inevitable?. Journal of Population Research 10, 1–16 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03029842

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