Why Intensive Agriculturalists Have Higher Fertility: A Household Energy Budget Approach

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Previous articleNext article No AccessReportsWhy Intensive Agriculturalists Have Higher Fertility: A Household Energy Budget Approach1KarenL.Kramer and JamesL.BooneKarenL.KramerDepartment of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, N.Y. 117944364, U.S.A. ([email protected])/Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. 87131, U.S.A. ([email protected]). 21 viii 01 Search for more articles by this author and JamesL.BooneDepartment of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, N.Y. 117944364, U.S.A. ([email protected])/Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. 87131, U.S.A. ([email protected]). 21 viii 01 Search for more articles by this author Department of Anthropology, State University of New York at Stony Brook, N.Y. 117944364, U.S.A. ([email protected])/Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N.M. 87131, U.S.A. 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