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92-05     Human Population Biology and the Evolution of Aging By: James W. Wood, Stephen C. Weeks (Savannah River Ecological Laboratory), Gilliam R. Bentley, and Kenneth M. Weiss

Published As: Wood, J.W. , S.C. Weeks , G.R. Bentley and K.M. Weiss (1994). "Human Population Biology and the Evolution of Aging." In Crews, D.E. and R.M. Garruto, Biological Anthropology and Aging: Perspectives on Human Variation over the Life Span. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

92-16     Hazards Models for Human Population Biology By: James W. Wood, Darryl J. Holman, Kenneth M. Weiss, Anne V. Buchanan, and Belinda LeFor

Published As: Wood, J.W. , D.J. Holman , K.M. Weiss , A.V. Buchanan and B. LeFor (1992). "Hazards Models for Human Population Biology." Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 35:43-87. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

95-13     Hetfit Maximum Likelihood Estimates of Heterogeneous Fecundability and Sterility By: Darryl J. Holman and James W. Wood

95-14     Field Methods of the Pennsylvania State University/International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh Fetal Loss Project By: Darryl J. Holman, James W. Wood, A. M. Sardar (ICDDR,B), Lutfun Nahar (ICDDR,B), Nural Alam (ICDDR,B), Tazek Ahmed Chowdhury (ICDDR,B), and Kenneth L. Campbell (University of Massachusetts-Boston)

97-04     Age and Female Reproductive Function: Identifying the Most Important Biological Determinants By: Darryl Holman, Kathleen O'Connor and James Wood

Published As: Holman, D.J. , K.A. O'Connor and J.W. Wood (2006). "Age and Female Reproductive Function: Identifying the Most Important Biological Determinants." In Sauvin-Dugerdil, C., H. Leridon and N. Mascie-Taylor, Human Clocks: The Bio-Cultural Meanings of Age. New York: Peter Lang Publishing.

98-11     Declining Fecundity and Ovarian Ageing By: Kathleen A. O'Connor, Darryl J. Holman and James W. Wood

Published As: O'Connor, K.A. , D.J. Holman and J.W. Wood (1998). "Declining Fecundity and Ovarian Ageing in Natural Fertility Populations." Maturitas 30(2):127-136. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

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