Sentences with phrase «how large the human population»
Hopfenberg presents an excellent look at the idea of carrying capacity and ultimatley argues that the food supply will be the critical variable in determining how large the human population will get.
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How it works: To measure the way malaria is transmitted, the computers simulate large human populations, varying biological and social parameters that influence the distribution of the disease.
«Large - scale conservation strategies such as Panthera's Jaguar Corridor Initiative, which are instrumental to protect broadly distributed species such as jaguars, maintain their connectivity, and by doing so to ensure their long - term survival, need to incorporate genetic monitoring of wild populations to fully understand how these species respond to environmental changes and increasing levels of human impacts,» Wultsch said.
He thinks this work will inspire other researchers with large databases of data on humans to look at how selection operates in populations.
A study of how a monetary system can change behavior finds that filthy lucre may have been crucial for the evolution of large human populations.
In a paper published in Nature in September 2013, we describe results of the largest study to date integrating RNA and genome sequencing data from multiple human populations, and provide a comprehensive map of how genetic variation affects the transcriptome.
«If the world we inhabit is bounded and finite, with limited resources, how many more years will pass before the colossal scale and global growth of unrestrained consumption, unchecked absolute human population numbers, and large - scale unbridled economic globalization activities by the human species make the Earth unfit for sustaining human habitation?»
Alternately, how expensive would it be to genetically modify very large segments of the human population?