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... increase the size of a population . As a population increases , a point is reached sooner or later at which the space , energy , and chemical substances needed for constructing new organisms become more difficult to obtain . If each ...
... increase the size of a population . As a population increases , a point is reached sooner or later at which the space , energy , and chemical substances needed for constructing new organisms become more difficult to obtain . If each ...
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... increase in four thousand years . By this time the original domesticants and Neolithic techniques could no longer maintain the same high per capita rate of return for labor input that had been characteristic of the years when land was ...
... increase in four thousand years . By this time the original domesticants and Neolithic techniques could no longer maintain the same high per capita rate of return for labor input that had been characteristic of the years when land was ...
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... increases there is often a tendency for technoen- vironmental efficiency to decline . This decline results from the ... increase the length of their per capita hunting time ( t in the formula ) and raise their total output and hence ...
... increases there is often a tendency for technoen- vironmental efficiency to decline . This decline results from the ... increase the length of their per capita hunting time ( t in the formula ) and raise their total output and hence ...
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Population Genetics | 13 |
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Suborder Anthropoidea versus Suborder Prosimii | 27 |
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