Global Problems with Population Growth

Robert Wyman - Yale University

1. Evolution of Sex and Reproductive Strategies

2. Sex and Violence Among the Apes

3. From Ape to Human

4. When Humans Were Scarce

5. Why Is Africa Different?

6. Malthusian Times

7. Demographic Transition in Europe I:
Mortality Decline I

8. Demographic Transition in Europe II:
Fertility Decline

9. Demographic Transition in Europe

10. Quantitative Aspects

11. Low Fertility in Developed Countries (Guest Lecture by Michael Teitelbaum)

12. Human and Environmental Impacts

13. Fertility Attitudes and Practices

14. Demographic Transition in Developing Countries

15. Female Disadvantage

16. Population in Traditional China

17. Population in Modern China

18. Economic Impact of Population Growth

19. Economic Motivations for Fertility

20. Teen Sexuality and Teen Pregnancy

21. Global Demography of Abortion

22. Media and the Fertility Transition in Developing Countries (Guest Lecture by William Ryerson)

23. Biology and History of Abortion

24. Population and the Environment