Geography 2143A/B Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Demographic Transition, Sex Selection, Infant Mortality
10 Dec 2013
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Demographic transition is a shift from r-type to k-type behaviour. Population is supposed to level out at a bit over 10 billion by the end of the century. Sweden-uppsala birth cohort-14000 swedish ppl born between 1915-1929. R/k interpretation-rate of reproduction and the carrying capacity of the environment. The psychology which encouraged k-type beh is not appropriate in modern circumstances. Better hygiene, nutrition, and medicine, and free education, no harem-formation are all. Privileges show up in succeeding generations but in a non-evolutionary way (reproduction) Seven brothers-an aversion to having daughters is leading to millions of missing girls. The man paid 5000 rupees () to a dalal (a broker) Fast growth, urbanisation, and increasing literacy rates have not affected this trend. The ratio is most distorted in the northern gangetic plain-such as punjab. Worsening sex ratios in all but 8/35 indian states and territories. Sakina was dumped in kotla, a village on the wheat plains south of delhi.
