[Some problems of intensification of studies on population self-reproduction]

"The paper deals with the most important debatable problems of theoretical demography. It is stated that modern demography is not a harmonious scientific system but a conglomeration of the data on different aspects of the population and its reproduction....A conclusion is made that a number of important problems in modern demography cannot be solved when approaching the given population as [a] human population." (SUMMARY IN ENG)