The Evolution of Models in Historical Demography. [PDF]
J Interdiscip Hist, 2020 Historical demography is in transition from a data-poor to a data-rich environment. Previous generations relied on demographic models to squeeze as much information as possible from the small amounts of data available. In this new era of large data sets, researchers are creating both regional and international historical data sets of unprecedented ...
Alter G.
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Diversification and historical demography of Rhampholeon spectrum in West-Central Africa. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 Pygmy Chameleons of the genus Rhampholeon represent a moderately diverse, geographically circumscribed radiation, with most species (18 out of 19 extant taxa) limited to East Africa. The one exception is Rhampholeon spectrum, a species restricted to West-
Walter Paulin Tapondjou Nkonmeneck +7 more
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Counting Souls: Towards an historical demography of Africa [PDF]
Demographic Research, 2016 Background: Little is known about even the relatively recent demographic history of Africa, because of the lack of data. Elsewhere, historical demographic trends have been reconstructed by applying family reconstitution to church records.
Sarah Walters
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Strength in Numbers. A Short Note on the Past, Present and Future of Large Historical Databases
Historical Life Course Studies, 2021 Historical demography is inherently associated with constructing large-scale databases from historical records. Although there have been tremendous changes in the way they are constructed, many of the challenges remain.
Lionel Kesztenbaum
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Историко-географический журнал, 2022 The article discusses the main areas of historical-demographic and historical-geographical research conducted at the Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Federal Research Center «Komi Science Centre of the Ural Branch of the Russian ...
N. M. Ignatova
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Population structure and historical demography of South American sea lions provide insights into the catastrophic decline of a marine mammal population [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Joseph Hoffman, Luke J Eberhart-Phillips
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Historical Life Course Studies, 2022 The Barcelona Historical Marriage Database (BHMD) gathers records of the more than 600,000 marriages celebrated in the Diocese of Barcelona and their taxation registered in Barcelona Cathedral's so-called Marriage Licenses Books for the long period 1451–
Joana Maria Pujadas-Mora +6 more
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The Richness of Italian Historical Demography
Historical Life Course Studies, 2020 In this paper, we present a new methodology for the reconstruction of individual life-histories based on information derived from the integration of different parish registers.
Marco Breschi +2 more
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Phylogeny and historical demography of endemic fishes in Lake Biwa: the ancient lake as a promoter of evolution and diversification of freshwater fishes in western Japan [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2016 Koji Tominaga +2 more
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Madresahs and Moravians. Muslim educational institutions in the Cape Colony, 1792 to 1910
Contree, 2006 The vigorous revival of Christian missionary activity after 1792 with the return of the Moravians and the arrival of the London Missionary Society had little effect on Cape Town Muslims. By 1793 the Dorp Street school (madrasah) was established. By then,
Robert Shell
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