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Session 29:
Evolutionary- and Bio-Demography

Thursday, July 10
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Amposta
Chair: John Hobcraft, University of York

1.  ’What do you do for a living?’ - Sex-specific mortality in historical times  •  Svenja Weise, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

2.  The evolutionary demography of the family: a review of the effects of kin on child mortality and female fertility rates  •  Rebecca Sear, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

3.  Is it a biomarker, a biomeasure, or a bioindicator? Research models to organize biomedical data for demographic analysis  •  James W. McNally, University of Michigan; Martha Sayre, University of Michigan

4.  Pioneers’ demographic legacy: a measure of the descendances of early immigrants in the Quebec population (17th-20th centuries)  •  Marc Tremblay, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi; Bertrand Desjardins, Université de Montréal; Houde Louis, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières; Helene Vezina, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

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