Class Description |
Biodemography Seminar (BioA 450)
5 credits
Professor Kathleen O'Connor
This course is an introduction to the theory, methods and literature of biodemographic research. Biodemography
examines the biological aspects aging, mortality, and fertility, typically within a life history framework. It is
an interdisciplinary field, specifically using and tying together theory and methods from the fields of demography,
anthropology, sociology, evolutionary biology, molecular biology and population biology. It covers pre-historic,
historic and modern human populations, as well as non-human model systems (e.g. non-human primates, fruit flies,
nematode worms, cars). The goal of this course is to broadly survey the biodemographic literature.
If you have any questions, please contact me. |
