BIOL 1500 Chapter 10: Unit10_BIOL1500_HumanPopulation
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The clumped distribution of humans masks a more uniform distribution on a local scale, these species are often territorial. Non-social species with the ability to tolerate conditions, show a random distribution in which no compelling factor is driving them together or a part: exponential population growth: growth that occurs in proportion to the current total. The quantity of new offspring is a proportion of the size of the previous generation and thus is a growing number. 100,000 years ago the human population was 5 million, 100 million people during the egyptian empire and 250 million at the dawn of christianity. It reached 1 billion by 1800, 2 billion in 1930 and 4 billion by 1970. The larger a population is, the larger it grows. The annual growth rate of a population is the percentage change in population size over a single year: the demographic transition: before the industrial revolution, birth and death rates were high in all populations of humans.