ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Life Insurance, Black Death
27 Aug 2015
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Ecological succession: as a natural system develops, it prepares for its next stage. J curve the growth rate of the population accelerates (exponential unrestricted) S curve the rate accelerates, point of maximum growth, feedback loop begins, the rate slows down (logistic restricted growth) Black death plague killed 33% of the population of europe 1333 started. Fleas on black rats were probably the cause of the plague. 1591 theatres closed, play writes were out of work. Romeo and juliet inspired by the black plague. Bacterium inside the fleas, transfer to the rat, transfer to people etc. Fleas were on the top of the houses, fleas would rain down on people and infect them. Life insurance derived from the idea of statistical analysis in the early.
