The invisible cliff: abrupt imposition of Malthusian equilibrium in a natural-fertility, agrarian society.

Analysis of a natural fertility agrarian society with a multi-variate model of population ecology isolates three distinct phases of population growth following settlement of a new habitat: (1) a sometimes lengthy copial phase of surplus food production and constant vital rates; (2) a brief transitio...

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Main Authors: Cedric Puleston, Shripad Tuljapurkar, Bruce Winterhalder
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3909123?pdf=render