Anthropological demography is a specialty within demography which uses anthropological theory and methods to provide a better understanding of demographic phenomena in current and past populations. Its genesis and ongoing growth lie at the intersection between demography and socio-cultural anthropology and with their efforts to understand population processes, mainly fertility, migration, and m...

This paper describes steps taken towards introducing Web-based educational technology in teaching demography at the university level. Traditionally, demography is taught by giving lectures to the students, who are then expected to study from textbooks and exercise in demographic calculus. Some students find this way of learning monotonous and exhausting, hence their motivation gradually drops. ...

The emerging field of corporate demography views corporations and industries in a similar way to human or animal individuals and groups. In spite of a surprisingly large overlap of subject matter with economics, corporate demography is not well-known by, nor easily accessible to economists. An outstanding recent book, The Demography of Corporations and Industries, by Glenn R. Carroll and Michae...

Detecting positive selection in species with heterogeneous habitats and complex demography is notoriously difficult and prone to statistical biases. The model plant Arabidopsis thaliana exemplifies this problem: In spite of the large amounts of data, little evidence for classic selective sweeps has been found. Moreover, many aspects of the demography are unclear, which makes it hard to judge wh...

In recent years, the scientific interest of many demographers has shifted from studying “demographic regimes” and large-scale processes to analysing longitudinal micro data in the form of “life courses”. By some of its advocates, the “life course approach” is heralded as a new paradigm capable of reinvigorating the study of populations. Since, ultimately, demography deals with the fates and cho...

Citation: Williams AJ, Wakefield CB, Newman SJ, Vourey E, Abascal FJ, Halafihi T, Kaltavara J and Nicol SJ (2017) Oceanic, Latitudinal, and Sex-Specific Variation in Demography of a Tropical Deepwater Snapper across the Indo-Pacific Region. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:382. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00382 Oceanic, Latitudinal, and Sex-Specific Variation in Demography of a Tropical Deepwater Snapper across ...

for a paper to be presented at 27th IUSSP International Population Conference, Busan, South Korea. Conference session: 601 International migration Guy Abel, Nikola Sander and Samir K.C. Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences & International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)