In hisEssays in Biography, J. M. Keynes praised the second edition ofAn Essay on Populationin the following terms: .RIS DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18218-3_4 Publisher NamePalgrave Macmillan, London Online ISBN978-1-349-18218-3 eBook PackagesPalgrave History CollectionHistory (R0)...
Malthus postulated the human reproductive capacity being higher than the earth's feeding capacity. As last decades' population growth proved Malthus theory wrong, experts agree that this can be attributed to the application of technology in agriculture, leading to a significant enhancement of unit ...
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There is no evidence of a positive feedback from increasing population size to technological progress as postulated by unified growth theory. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.doi:10.1016/j.jmacro.2007.08.007Nicholas Crafts aTerence C. Mills b...
same patch, suggesting that it is not courtship but rather another form of rejection behaviour by females. Our results therefore not only shed light on the sex ratio bias ofMicromalthus, they also confirm that sex roles are not necessarily fixed, and support mating systems theory that predicts ...
James's primary intention, in this first full-length biography of Malthus, was to correct oversights and misconceptions that persist despite an excess of material written on Malthus and his theory [1]. Finally, James was editor of the scholarly and variorum edition of Malthus's An Essay on ...
The theory on which the truth of this position depends appears to me so extremely clear that I feel at a loss to conjecture what part of it can be denied. That population cannot increase without the means of subsistence is a proposition so evident that it needs no illustration. That populat...
For the Malthusian theory of population to be accepted as "scientific," it was essential that the theory be established on wide empirical evidence. A close examination of the "facts" provided by Malthus, however, shows that many of his crucial facts are based on distortions of the available ...
www.nature.com/scientificreports OPEN The ghost sex-life of the paedogenetic beetle Micromalthus debilis received: 09 February 2016 accepted: 12 May 2016 Published: 07 June 2016 M. Alejandra Perotti1, Daniel K. Young2 & Henk R. Braig3 Genetic and sexual systems can be ...
During the last two decades this q-generalized theory has been successfully applied to a considerable amount of physically interesting complex phenomena. The authors wish to present a mathematical analysis of the possible q-generalizations of the Malthus and the Verhulst growth models based on Tsallis...