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We omit the final section of Thompson’s paper, in which he shows the effects on population size of(a) lengthening the pre-reproductive interval, (b) lengthening the period of reproduction, (c) increasing the number of offspring produced per day, and (d) compacting the reproductive period while leaving the number of offspring constant.
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Smith, D.P., Keyfitz, N. (2013). On the Reproduction of Organisms with Overlapping Generations. In: Wachter, K., Le Bras, H. (eds) Mathematical Demography. Demographic Research Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35858-6_20
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