Birth order, sibling investment, and fertility among Ju/’Hoansi (!Kung)
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Birth order, sibling investment, and fertility among Ju/'Hoansi (!Kung).
Birth order has been examined over a wide variety of dimensions in the context of modern populations. A consistent message has been that it is better to be born first. The analysis of birth order in this paper is different in several ways from other investigations into birth order effects. First, we examine the effect of birth order in an egalitarian, small-scale, kin-based society, which has n...
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عنوان ژورنال: Human Nature
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1045-6767,1936-4776
DOI: 10.1007/s12110-000-1016-0