Population
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+ | "In the days before [[Louis Pasteur|Pasteur]] [[World population|man's population]] was maintained approximately constant from generation to generation by a [[cybernetic]] system in which the principal [[feedback]] element at the upper limit was [[disease]]. The [[crowd]]-diseases — [[smallpox]], [[cholera]], [[Typhoid fever|typhoid]], [[plague]], etc. — are, by the ecologist, labeled "[[Population density|density-dependent factors]]," whose effectiveness in reducing [[population]] is a power function of the density of the population. No growth of population could get out of hand as long as the crowd-diseases were unconquered, which means that man did not have to sit in judgment on man, to decide who should have a cover at Nature’s feast and who should not." --''[[Nature and Man's Fate]]'' (1965) by [[Garrett Hardin]] | ||
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- | # The [[people|peopling]] of a place. | + | A '''population''' is the number of all the [[organism]]s of the same group or [[species]], which live in a particular [[geographical area]], and have the capability of interbreeding. |
- | #: ''The '''population''' of the colonies soon came to be from natural increase.'' | + | |
+ | The area that is used to define a [[sex]]ual population is defined as the area where [[interbreeding|inter-breeding]] is potentially possible between any pair within the area, and where the probability of interbreeding is greater than the probability of [[Crossbreed|cross-breeding]] with individuals from other areas. | ||
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+ | In [[sociology]], population refers to a collection of [[human]]s. [[Demography]] is a [[social science]] which entails the statistical study of human populations. This article refers mainly to the human population. | ||
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+ | ==See also== | ||
+ | * [[Community (ecology)]] | ||
+ | * [[Overpopulation]] | ||
+ | * [[Projections of population growth]] | ||
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"In the days before Pasteur man's population was maintained approximately constant from generation to generation by a cybernetic system in which the principal feedback element at the upper limit was disease. The crowd-diseases — smallpox, cholera, typhoid, plague, etc. — are, by the ecologist, labeled "density-dependent factors," whose effectiveness in reducing population is a power function of the density of the population. No growth of population could get out of hand as long as the crowd-diseases were unconquered, which means that man did not have to sit in judgment on man, to decide who should have a cover at Nature’s feast and who should not." --Nature and Man's Fate (1965) by Garrett Hardin |
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A population is the number of all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding.
The area that is used to define a sexual population is defined as the area where inter-breeding is potentially possible between any pair within the area, and where the probability of interbreeding is greater than the probability of cross-breeding with individuals from other areas.
In sociology, population refers to a collection of humans. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of human populations. This article refers mainly to the human population.
See also