SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Isle Royale National Park, Soho, Thomas Robert Malthus

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Argued that population grows faster than food production. Said growth rate in human production leads to starvation. Wolves single moose out and eat it. If wolf population is low, moose population grows and vice versa. Which is expected to level out at about 9 billion people. Their labor was needed (you needed sons ones that survive adulthood: and they often died in infancy because of diseases (which is why they had so many babies, half of children died in infancy. People decided to have a lot of babies. Things like vaccinations make death rate drop. Moreover, disease stalked the slums broad street pump. Nigeria (a developing country), at the top of pyramid (oldest people) there is fewer people alive. Still, birth rates are relatively lower than they used to be. 2. 1 (average number of births to women needed to keep the population stable)