Demography in the Context of Population Sciences: A Historical Reflection
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Result on the web
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Demography in the Context of Population Sciences: A Historical Reflection
Original language description
Demography as a science about populations has developed in a close relationship with other natural and social sciences. The tight relationship of demography to social sciences and statistics is now taken for granted, while the relationship to natural sciences remains underappreciated. This paper aims to search for interdisciplinary connections of demography to natural sciences focused on populations. It starts with an excursion to history and contemplates on the motivation for the historical development of demography in a broader scientific and historical context. Individual topics discusses here include the origins of probabilistic mortality tables and historical personalities of Adolphe Quetelet, Leonard Darwin, and Ronald A. Fisher, where an original application of Fisher factorial test is presented. The connection between the history of demography and eugenics in the first half of the 20th century is also recalled. Finally, the paper continues with a discussion of current relationships of demography with (modern) eugenics or population genetics.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Result continuities
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Article name in the collection
RELIK 2024 Conference Proceedings
ISBN
978-80-245-2538-9
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Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
145-154
Publisher name
University of Economics and Business
Place of publication
Prague
Event location
Prague
Event date
Nov 14, 2024
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
UT code for WoS article
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