Adapting to Population Growth: The Evolutionary Alternative to Malthus
A long-standing debate on the dynamics of population growth in human history has become polarized between a Malthusian stance and a Boserupian one. The former tends to view population growth as limited by carrying capacity, dependent on environment and technology, whereas the latter sees population...
Published in: | Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution |
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Main Authors: | , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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eScholarship Publishing, University of California
2016
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.21237/C7clio7130171 https://doaj.org/article/4bd50942ea3f4b36b88f03607b534ef3 |