palaeodemography
/ˌpalɪəʊdɪˈmɒɡrəfi
/ /ˌpeɪlɪəʊdɪˈmɒɡrəfi/(US paleodemography)
noun [mass noun]
The branch of knowledge that deals with the demographic features of past populations and cultures.The pattern of population size change across the Pleistocene has come to be of critical interest, linking paleodemography with population genetics, paleoecology, and paleoanthropology....
- Adult sex ratios in fossil assemblages, when discernible via a form of sexual dimorphism, add a valuable dimension to paleodemography because they are strongly linked to sociality in extant species.
- A previous study of the palaeodemography of these hominids was made after the 1993 season.