The human population exploded and without natural selection pressure, fecundity in the types economic activity flourished.
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In fact the incredible human population boom is largely an artifact of the carbon bubble.
As the world's human population grows, so will the problem of the global food supply.
In the space of the last 500 years the human population grew approximately 1000%.
Given the human population is around 60 million, we actually outnumber rats by six to one.
And ultimately, by realizing the potential of the entire human population, we will all be better off.
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They are also the places where most forest is most directly threatened by an exploding human population.
The families differ by the size of the human population and the size of the global economy.
This, some scientists believe, leads to new illnesses formed by genetic mutation crossing the species barrier and entering the human population.
The report contends that the main cause of the damage is the growth in the human population and associated economic activities.
This, some scientists believe, leads to new diseases formed by genetic mutation crossing the species barrier and entering the human population.
Between 1950 and 2000 the human population of the Chesapeake Bay watershed region has more than doubled, from 8m to over 16.7m.
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The growth of human population, which Malthus believed had peaked during his lifetime, has risen relentlessly and rapidly over the past three centuries.
Human population is probably a bubble and it might burst, as I postulate in my latest science fiction medical thriller The First Horseman.
First, the human population has expanded rapidly during that period, which increases the size of the gene pool in which mutations can occur.
Their concern was two-fold: Many fear that cultivating human cells close to mouse cells might allow animal viruses to move into the human population.
"We're now so profoundly interconnected that it will be the case things will enter into the human population and will spread globally, " said Wolfe.
"We have determined that the virus H1N1, found in these pigs, is the virus which is being tracked in the human population, " he added.
The Club of Rome has just projected a future in which the demands of a growing human population outstrip the Earth's capacity to provide.
With the human population now at seven billion and climbing, cities have become huge territories that don't allow the passage of other species through them.
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DoCoMo estimates that the number of devices in Japan which might be linked in this way exceeds the human population by a factor of five.
At some point next year, probably during the month of October, the world human population will pass the 6 billion mark for the first time.
Is the human population explosion a mere pretext for biological profiteering?
In 1798, Malthus argued that human population always grows more rapidly than the human food supply until war, disease or famine reduces the number of people.
Today these slightly crippled versions of housekeeping genes are scattered more or less haphazardly through the human population and are considered normal components of the human genome.
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But scientists working at the World Health Organization and in its network of laboratories say it doesn't appear SARS has spent much time in the human population.
Even today, the United Nations says that the human population is so big that "the amount of resources needed to sustain it exceeds what is available, " reports AFP.
Dashing protracted assumptions that the human population would never exceed 9.5 billion, the latest study suggests that by 2100 we could number 10.1 billion, or even 15.8 billion people.
For the ocean to continue to do what's it's done for millions of years and serve the needs of a rapidly expanding human population, it needs to be healthy.
This means that when a story (or video game) resonates with a large contingent of the human population we should assume that it is effectively describing a predominant psychological reality.
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