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July 31, 2025

Does the institutional environment shape human life-histories? The historical case of Augustus Smith and the Isles of Scilly

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RLRichard A. LayfieldJWJane WillsEPErik Postma

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Overview

Historical policy changes aimed to improve education and food availability, influencing child mortality and lifespan.

Key Points

  • The analysis looks at how changes in the institutional environment can affect human life-histories.
  • Evidence suggests that policy changes reduced child mortality but had less clear impacts on lifespan and family size.
  • Interrupted time series analysis and generalized additive models provided insights into the non-linear data over time.
  • Findings indicate improving living standards, yet the life-history implications of the changes remain complex.

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Layfield et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/689a094be6551bb0af8cf22chttps://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/wm8t4_v1
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