ANTH 337 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Endocrine System, Lactational Amenorrhea, Teenage Pregnancy
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Demography part 2: population growth and fertility regulation. Among ourselves, our animals, and our foodstuffs, we appropriate nearly a quarter of the net terrestrial primary productivity of the planet while at least 1 billion members of the human population are undernourished. Malthus predicted death by starvation for many when the exponential growth of human population exceeded the arithmetic growth of the human food supply. The human population has expanded at an accelerating rate over the past thousand years and at an explosive rate over the past two centuries: human population growth results from the net effect of two dynamic processes. Both are modulated by cultural and biological factors o. Clinicians by definition deal with pathology or deviation from a standard definition of. The focus of human biologists is on human variation itself and its potential functional significance o. Populations of organisms, including humans, tend to grow, not doubling in size every day, but doubling over some constant unit of time.
