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Our interdisciplinary centre will engage in fundamentally different approaches to tackle the most challenging demographic problems of our time.  

 

Professor Melinda Mills, Director at LCDS

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New study on human fertility

How many children an individual may have is influenced by reproductive biology and human behaviour, according to the largest study to date, which identifies genetic determinants. The study, led by researchers at the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science, Universities of Cambridge and Pennsylvania, also identified that the human genome has been influenced by natural selection for thousands of years and continues to affect fertility today. Watch the explainer video here.

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