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April 17, 2014
MPIDR study proves trans-generational defense mechanism in humans: If the environmental disease load at conception is high mortality of the children is reduced during epidemics. more
April 02, 2014
Mapping the very old: Those who reached an age of 105 years or more in Germany are concentrated in the north-west and in Berlin. more
December 11, 2013
New MPIDR study: Low birth rates in Germany do not result from German culture, but rather from too little provision of public child care. more
December 08, 2013
New Nature study: MPIDR researchers publish demographic data that show how diversely different species age across the tree of life. Evolutionary theories can not yet explain why. more
November 12, 2013
Parents’ strategy to love their children depends on more than blood ties, finds a new MPIDR study by Kai Willführ. more
July 10, 2013
New MPIDR study: Rising unemployment rates stop upward trend of fertility in European countries more
March 21, 2013
New MPIDR projections: In many developed countries the trend of falling cohort birth rates reverses. Women born in the 1970s will have more babies than previous cohorts. more
March 04, 2013
The global population may not stabilize at a level of 10 billion, as projections by the United Nations suggest. more
November 15, 2012
MPIDR researchers provide for the first time data on regional variation in the rise of non-marital fertility across 497 European regions. The analysis covers the last 50 years. more
October 16, 2012
During the last 100 years there has been a far greater drop in human mortality than there was when humans evolved from wild chimpanzees. Scientists at the MPIDR have now published striking evidence of how unusual this recent reduction is. more