The numbers of man and animals / ed. by J. B. Cragg and N. W. Pirie.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Institute of Biology
Other Authors: Cragg, James Birkett, 1910-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd, [1955]
Series:Symposia of the Institute of Biology ; no. 4.
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Table of Contents:
  • Economic theory and the concept of an optimum population
  • The growth of human population
  • An anthropologist's approach to population growth: studies in the Bechuanaland Protectorate
  • The mathematical approach to population dynamics
  • The mortality factors affecting adult numbers
  • Adverse effects of population density upon the viability of later generations
  • Experimental competition in beetles, with some general implications
  • The relationship between disease control and changes in population growth and age structure
  • Some biological aspects of population problems
  • The effects of nutrition on fertility in animal and human populations
  • Pastoralism in relation to population of men and animals
  • Changes in the quantity of human populations
  • Human population: the future.