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The Evolutionary History of Human Parental Investment in Relation to Population Growth and Social Stratification

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Feminism and Evolutionary Biology

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The facts of global population growth shown in Figure 19.1 have become depressingly familiar: one billion human beings in 1800, 1.5 billion in 1950, and 5.5 billion today (Bongaarts, 1994). In the past 40 years more people have been added to the globe than in all of the preceding history of our species. Currently the world’s population is expanding at the unprecedented rate of nearly one billion per decade, and projections suggest a total of 11.5 billion by the end of the twenty-first century. Virtually all this growth is expected to occur in the developing regions of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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Lancaster, J.B. (1997). The Evolutionary History of Human Parental Investment in Relation to Population Growth and Social Stratification. In: Gowaty, P.A. (eds) Feminism and Evolutionary Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5985-6_19

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