We were in London, having coffee before a Jane’s Cityforum conference on “Defense to 2020 and Beyond.” As we talked, generals, staffers, and defense contractors maneuvered among the pastry tables.
BACKGROUND Any individual is surrounded by a network of kin that develops over her lifetime. In a justly famous paper, Goodman, Keyfitz, and Pullum (1974) presented formal calculations of the mean ...
Fundamental theory on how metabolism affects population demography needs revision, research suggests
Metabolic rates can determine how much food an organism needs and how quickly it can convert that food into growth. Scientists have long suspected the reason mice populations grow faster than elephant ...
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World. By Paul Morland.PublicAffairs; 352 pages; $28. John Murray; £25. Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline. By Darrell Bricker and ...
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