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International Journal of Population Research
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 340719, 10 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/340719
Cultural Inheritance and Fertility Outcomes: An Analysis from Evolutionary and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
1Virginia Commonwealth University, Sociology Program, L. Douglas Wilder School of Government and Public Affairs, Richmond, VA 23284, USA
2Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
3Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA
4University of Wisconsin-Superior, Superior, WI 54880, USA
Received 28 May 2012; Accepted 23 November 2012
Academic Editor: Pranitha Maharaj
Copyright © 2013 Li Zhang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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