SOC 3511 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hunter-Gatherer, Postulant, Zoonosis
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Humans fit into a biological continuum where, like other larger mammals, we reproduce slowly (gestation time and generation length). Unlike other mammals humans enjoy reproductive behavior (sex) and might have sex more often than necessary (humans debate this because of our language skills) Fathers recognize their young in human society, and child-rearing arrangements (which takes a long time) in most human societies account for this. R strategy: precarious equilibrium with the environment, high rates of increase, violent and in some cases regular cycles of growth and decline. K strategy: stable equilibrium with the environment, rates of increase compatible with environment, slow and irregular cycles. So if the population increases, there are three (3) possibilities for how that occurred: more births while deaths remain constant, births constant, but fewer deaths, births rise by more than deaths. Malthus was born in guilford, in england"s rich and intellectually diverse south: principle of population: the future improvement of society.
