What do evolutionary demographers do?
Demographers investigate mortality, fertility and migration rates. Demography, ecology and evolutionary biology are quantitative studies of population processes that affect these rates. Both empirical and theoretical studies are brought to bear on diverse questions such as: Are age-patterns of these rates the same across populations and species? Why and how do these rates vary according to age, size, socioeconomic group, genetic structure? How does the environmental context experienced by organisms interact with inherited traits in shaping these patterns? Evolutionary ecologists and life history biologists ask how the diversity of pattern evolves? What will populations of humans, wildlife, plants and microbes look like in the future?
Biodemography is the rather new discipline that has arisen from interdisciplinary exchanges of evolutionary demographers.
Biodemography is the rather new discipline that has arisen from interdisciplinary exchanges of evolutionary demographers.