Does Food Supply Determine Population Size?
March 6, 2010 • Daily Email Recap
Thanks to Madeline Weld for the attached paper by Russell Hopfenberg, which shows the correlation between human population numbers and food availability.
Human Carrying Capacity is Determined by Food Availability (PDF, 209 KB)
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