NEWS

The textbook Essential Demographic Methods is scheduled for publication in June 2014 by Harvard University Press.

Ken Wachter presented a paper on ``Alleles, Mortality Rates, and the Evolutionary Theory of Senescence'' at the Bay Area Colloquium in Population on 5 March 2014.

We mourn the sudden death on Thursday, 26 September 2013, of our dear friend George Merriam. An obituary is posted at this link.