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- noun A branch of
human demography concerned with understanding the complementary biological and demographicdeterminants of, andinteractions between, the birth and death processes that shapeindividuals andpopulations .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Finally, lest you think Logan is wasting research dollars by worrying about college football poll results, you should know that his specialties are economic history, economic demography, and biodemography.
College Football Polls Aren’t What You Think - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Finally, lest you think Logan is wasting research dollars by worrying about college football poll results, you should know that his specialties are economic history, economic demography, and biodemography.
College Football Polls Aren’t What You Think - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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So Dr. Olshansky, who specializes in biodemography, the study of factors that influence the duration of life, set out to gather the data needed to answer the question.
NYT > Home Page By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN 2011
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So Dr. Olshansky, who specializes in biodemography, the study of factors that influence the duration of life, set out to gather the data needed to answer the question.
NYT > Home Page By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN 2011
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A major contribution of researchers in the nascent field of biodemography has been to show that the theory should be expanded to permit greater variation in patterns of ageing, including so-called inverse senescence - the decline of mortality and the improvement of health over all or most of adult life
Naturejobs - All Jobs James W. Vaupel 2010
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Many Centers also conduct research on global aging and cross-national comparisons, and several are pioneering work on the biodemography of aging, investigating the relationships among biology and genetics, health and mortality and life expectancy.
Media Newswire 2010
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