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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Historical demography"”.
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New methods to answer old questions: A study of London infant and child mortality at the turn of the twentieth century
… (1895-1911), and to add to the debate on the historical infant mortality decline. Previous studies in this field have been plagued with limitations driven by data availability and quality. Now, historical demographers are turning to new technologies and methods – including big microdata, …
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Population genetics and systematics of a species-rich clade of Neotropical reef fishes, the tubeblenny genus Acanthemblemaria
Neotropical coral reef fish communities are species-poor compared to those of the Indo-West Pacific. An exception to that pattern is the blenny clade Chaenopsidae, one of only three coral reef fish families endemic to the Neotropics. Within the chaenopsids, the genus Acanthemblemaria is the most …
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The Demographic Links Between the 1890 and 1918 Influenza Pandemics in Ontario
… manner. The extant records are appropriate for historical demographic analyses and the strength and weaknesses for each are detailed. As expected, individuals from the north, who were aboriginal, from smaller families, or in transient occupations were harder to link.
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Inheritance, Family Structure, and Economic Development in the Lower Yangzi Region, c.1650-1950
… vital to economic growth. This dissertation uses historical data from China’s economic core, the Lower Yangzi Region, to analyse the relationships between inheritance practices, social structure, and economic development between 1650 and 1950. It describes this set of relationships as the …
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Causes and consequences of genetic diversity in pinnipeds
… In chapter 1, I give an overview of the historical context and main questions of this dissertation and describe the pinnipeds as a study system. In chapter 2, I present a comparative genetic analysis of the demographic consequences of commercial exploitation. We found that around …
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Reconsidering Colonial Registration. Social Histories of Lives, Land, and Labour in Eighteenth-Century Sri Lanka
Contains fulltext : 291376.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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The occupational structure of the Yangtze Valley in the twentieth century
… members. The value of this source for studies of historical demography has been recognised, but the occupational information has not been identified and exploited systematically. My Ph.D. project created, from scratch, the novel Yangtze Jiapu Dataset (YJD) with 208,130 occupational observations …
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Scarred for Life. How conditions in early life affect socioeconomic status, reproduction and mortality in Southern Sweden, 1813-1968
The aim of this doctoral thesis is to contribute to the debate on the importance of diet and disease in explaining the mortality decline and the general literature of the long-term effects of early life conditions. Using individual-level data from Southern Sweden for 1813 to 1968, this work …
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Genómica de la diversificación de Heliconius cydno (Lepidóptera: Nymphalidae) en el norte de Suramérica: patrones geográficos y fenotípicos
Grandes eventos geológicos, como el levantamiento de los Andes y la formación de los valles interandinos, han sido determinantes en la configuración de la biodiversidad neotropical. Este estudio evalúa su influencia en la radiación adaptativa reciente (∼1.5 Ma) de Heliconius cydno, una mariposa …