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APPLIED MATHEMATICAL DEMOGRAPHY - NATHAN KEYFIT...

ButIacceptedtheinvitation.Key?tz'ssuggestionthatweincorporatesome of my earlier work on matrix
population models seemed like a good way to complement the methods presented in the book  and
to expand the range of their applications. I am a demographer of plants and nonhuman animals.
Some would call this an oxymoron  since the Greek rootdemos refers to people  and that's us.
But there are precedents for taking more inclusive de?nitions of the Greek.Ecologyandeconomics
forexample bothcomefromtherootoikos  referring to the household. Interpretingdemos as referring
to individuals  whether they are persons or not  lets demography apply across species. There is
a long tradition of such crossover. Alfred J. Lotka is acknowledged as a founding father of
both demography and ecology. Raymond Pearl used demographic methods to analyze the e?ects of
toxic substances and cro- ing on fruit ?ies. Lee (1987) compared the density-dependence of the
vital rates of human and non-human animals. Today  in studies of senescence  reproduction  and
individual heterogeneity  the boundaries between animal and human studies are becoming
increasingly blurred (Wachter et al. 1997  Carey 2003  Wachter and Bulatao 2003  Carey and
Tuljapurkar 2003).

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