Download or read book Fertility and Resources written by Society for the Study of Human Biology. Symposium and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1990-10-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fertility in animals reflects access to scarce resources, such as food and territory. In humans the situation is more complex. In this book, the gap between socio-ecology and population demography is bridged, by showing how animals and humans adjust their fertility to environmental conditions.