Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality

by Rodgers, Joseph Lee; Rowe, David C.; Miller, Warren B.

• ISBN13: 9780792378600
• ISBN10: 0792378601
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

Recent work in quantitative biology has shown theoretically why Fisher's Fundamental Theorem of Natural Selection does not preclude genetic influences on fertility, sexuality, and related processes. Genetic Influences on Human Fertility and Sexuality takes the next step, and presents a number of successful empirical searches for such genetic influence on a broad range of processes, such as puberty, marriage, sexual behavior, and twinning. Employing a broad range of methodological approaches, including molecular and behavioral genetics, this book weaves a new theoretical framework that shows how genes can help relate fertility planning to fertility outcome, and how puberty, sexuality, marriage, and reproduction can be conceptually linked through the genes that contribute to individual differences in the human process.

Author Biography

Joseph Lee Rodgers is a Robert Glenn Rapp Foundation Presidential Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Preface	xiii
Introduction I Introductory Comments from a Biological Scientist	1	(2)
Dean H. Hamer
Introduction II Introductory Comments from a Social Scientist	3	(4)
Christine Bachrach
PART I GENETIC INFLUENCES ON FERTILITY MOTIVATION AND FERTILITY OUTCOMES
Evolutionary Causes of Genetic Variation In Fertility and Other Fitness Components	7	(28)
Kimberly A. Hughes
Mary H. Burleson
Genetic Influences on Childbearing Motivation: Further Testing a Theoretical Framework	35	(32)
Warren B. Miller
David J. Pasta
James MacMurray
Donn Muhleman
David E. Comings
Genetic Influences on Fertility Behavior: Findings From a Danish Twin Study, 1910-1923	67	(18)
Hans-Peter Kohler
Kaare Christensen
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Fertility Expectations and Outcomes using NLSY Kinship Data	85	(22)
Joseph Lee Rodgers
Debby Doughty
A Heritability Study of Childbearing Motivation	107	(20)
David J. Pasta
Warren B. Miller
Commentary on Chapter 1-5	121	(6)
J. Richard Udry
PART II GENETIC INFLUENCES ON PUBERTAL DEVELOPMENT AND REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGIES
Conditional and Alternative Reproductive Strategies: Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Rearing Experience	127	(20)
Jay Belsky
Environmental and Genetic Influences on Pubertal Development: Evolutionary Life History Traits?	147	(22)
David C. Rowe
Behavior Genetic Modeling of Menarche in U.S. Females	169	(14)
Debby Doughty
Joseph Lee Rodgers
Early Family Environment, Reproductive Strategy, and Contraceptive Behavior: Testing a Genetic Hypothesis	183	(54)
Warren B. Miller
David J. Pasta
Commentary on Chapters 6-9	231	(6)
Linda Mealey
PART III GENETIC INFLUENCES ON SEXUALITY, MARRIAGE, AND REPRODUCTION
The Genetics of Human Sexual Orientation	237	(16)
Khytam Dawood
J. Michael Bailey
Endophenotypes for Marital Status in the NAS-NRC Twin Registry	253	(18)
Susan L. Trumbetta
Irving I. Gottesman
Age at First Childbirth: A Major Selective Factor for Psychiatric Genes in the Twentieth Century	271	(18)
David E. Comings
Twinning, Fertility, and the Opportunity for Natural Selection in a Micronesian Island Population	289	(14)
Jane Underwood
Associations between the Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase Gene (NOS3), Reproductive Behaviors, and Twinning	303	(22)
James MacMurray
Bruce Kovacs
Matt McGue
James P. Johnson
Hezekiah Blake
David E. Comings
Commentary on Chapters 10-14	317	(8)
A. J. Figueredo
Index	325