Darwin and Lotka: two concepts of population
Population was the subject of two major conceptual developments in the second quarter of the 20th century. Both were inspired by evolutionary biology. Lotka developed a mathematics of evolution in human and other species by analogy to thermodynamic models. His theory followed demographic practice in...
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2009
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