Cultural evolutionists have long been interested in the problem of why fertility declines as populations develop. By outlining plausible mechanistic links between individual decision-making, information flow in populations and competition between groups, models of cultural evolution offer a novel and powerful approach for integrating multiple levels of explanation of fertility transitions. Howe...

Abstract Using data from various sources, this paper discusses the recently documented below replacement level fertility in India context of universality marriage girls, most which are arranged by parents, and increase their mean age at marriage, mainly due to decrease child marriage. There is virtually no divorce rate, cohabitation, or voluntary childlessness, except for some anecdotal evidenc...