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Demography, urbanization and development: Rural push, urban pull and…urban push? by Jedwab, Remi, Christiaensen, Luc, Gindelsky, Marina

“…Developing countries have urbanized rapidly since 1950. To explain urbanization, standard models emphasize rural–urban migration, focusing on rural push…”
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Demography: Fast and Slow by Billari, Francesco C.

“…Scientific ideas on the human population tend to be rooted in a “slow demography” paradigm, which emphasizes an inertial, predictable, self…”
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American climate migration by Aczel, Miriam R, Mor Barak, Michàlle E

“…Increasingly inhospitable conditions will change the nation’s demography, argues a journalist…”
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Demography of snowshoe hare population cycles by Oli, Madan K., Krebs, Charles J., Kenney, Alice J., Boonstra, Rudy, Boutin, Stan, Hines, James E.

“…Cyclic fluctuations in abundance exhibited by some mammalian populations in northern habitats (“population cycles”) are key processes in the functioning of…”
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Worldwide demography of centenarians by Robine, Jean-Marie, Cubaynes, Sarah

“…•According to the United Nations, the global number of centenarians should reach more than 25 million people in 2100.•We focused on four European countries and…”
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WorldPop, open data for spatial demography by Tatem, Andrew J.

“…High resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions, their characteristics and changes over time are a prerequisite for the accurate…”
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COMADRE: a global data base of animal demography by Salguero‐Gómez, Roberto, Jones, Owen R, Archer, C. Ruth, Bein, Christoph, Buhr, Hendrik, Farack, Claudia, Gottschalk, Fränce, Hartmann, Alexander, Henning, Anne, Hoppe, Gabriel, Römer, Gesa, Ruoff, Tara, Sommer, Veronika, Wille, Julia, Voigt, Jakob, Zeh, Stefan, Vieregg, Dirk, Buckley, Yvonne M, Che‐Castaldo, Judy, Hodgson, David, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Caswell, Hal, Vaupel, James W, Coulson, Tim

“…The open‐data scientific philosophy is being widely adopted and proving to promote considerable progress in ecology and evolution. Open‐data global data bases…”
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Demography beyond the population by Griffith, Alden B, Salguero‐Gómez, Roberto, Merow, Cory, McMahon, Sean, Gibson, David

“… As the fates of individual organisms are influenced by, and subsequently underlie, many other patterns and processes, we suggest that connecting demography…”
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The demography of Roman Italy: population dynamics in an ancient conquest society (201 BCE-14 CE) / Saskia Hin by Hin, Saskia

“… In tracing the population history of an ancient conquest society, she provides an accessible pathway into Roman demography which focuses on the three main demographic…”
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Demography of galactic technosignatures by Grimaldi, Claudio

“… Here, we introduce other indicators than Drake’s number ND to develop a demography of artificial emissions populating the Galaxy…”
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The effects of phenological mismatches on demography by Miller-Rushing, Abraham J., Høye, Toke Thomas, Inouye, David W., Post, Eric

“…Climate change is altering the phenology of species across the world, but what are the consequences of these phenological changes for the demography and population dynamics of species…”
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Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency—Demography and Underlying Causes by Vazirani, Jayesh, Nair, Dhanyasree, Shanbhag, Swapna, Wurity, Siva, Ranjan, Abhishek, Sangwan, Virender

“…To determine the demographic features of patients affected by limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD), and to identify the underlying causes of LSCD. Retrospective,…”
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The Demography of Families: A Review of Patterns and Change by Smock, Pamela J., Schwartz, Christine R.

“…ABSTRACT The authors review demographic trends and research on families in the United States, with a special focus on the past decade. They consider the…”
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The plateau of human mortality: Demography of longevity pioneers by Barbi, Elisabetta, Lagona, Francesco, Marsili, Marco, Vaupel, James W, Wachter, Kenneth W

“…Theories about biological limits to life span and evolutionary shaping of human longevity depend on facts about mortality at extreme ages, but these facts have…”
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Environmental Malthusianism and demography by Merchant, Emily Klancher

“… These accounts, however, neglect the antagonistic relationship between environmental Malthusianism and demography, thereby creating an illusion of scientific consensus…”
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Demography of Hexarthra jenkinae by Nandini, S, Carmona-Ruiz, José Alberto, Sarma, S. S. S

“…Life history strategies of rotifers vary in relation to their habitats. We compared the demography of Hexarthra jenkinae (de Beauchamp, 1932…”
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Family Change and Changing Family Demography by Seltzer, Judith A.

“…Increases in life expectancy, high rates of movement into and out of couple relationships, and increasing exposure to stepfamilies raise new questions about…”
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Population demography maintains biogeographic boundaries by Schmidt, Chloé, Muñoz, Gabriel, Lancaster, Lesley T., Lessard, Jean‐Philippe, Marske, Katharine A., Marshall, Katie E., Garroway, Colin J.

“… empirically explored. Using three independently curated data sets describing continental patterns of mammalian demography and population genetics, we show that populations…”
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Cultural evolution and prehistoric demography by Strassberg, Sarah Saxton, Creanza, Nicole

“… Over the past few decades, researchers in the fields of prehistoric demography and cultural evolution have addressed a number of questions regarding variation in toolkit size and complexity across…”
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compadre Plant Matrix Database: an open online repository for plant demography by Salguero‐Gómez, Roberto, Jones, Owen R, Archer, C. Ruth, Buckley, Yvonne M, Che‐Castaldo, Judy, Caswell, Hal, Hodgson, David, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Conde, Dalia A, Brinks, Erik, Buhr, Hendrik, Farack, Claudia, Gottschalk, Fränce, Hartmann, Alexander, Henning, Anne, Hoppe, Gabriel, Römer, Gesa, Runge, Jens, Ruoff, Tara, Wille, Julia, Zeh, Stefan, Davison, Raziel, Vieregg, Dirk, Baudisch, Annette, Altwegg, Res, Colchero, Fernando, Dong, Ming, Kroon, Hans, Lebreton, Jean‐Dominique, Metcalf, Charlotte J. E, Neel, Maile M, Parker, Ingrid M, Takada, Takenori, Valverde, Teresa, Vélez‐Espino, Luis A, Wardle, Glenda M, Franco, Miguel, Vaupel, James W, Rees, Mark

“…Schedules of survival, growth and reproduction are key life‐history traits. Data on how these traits vary among species and populations are fundamental to our…”
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