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Tomorrow's People - Paul Morland | Maiden Mother Matriarch 25

Maiden Mother Matriarch with Louise Perry

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The Evolution of Malthus

It took from Julius Caesar to Queen Victoria, it's the best part of 1800 years for the population of the world to get from about a quarter of a billion to a billion. Malthus grasping Malthus is really important and actually interestingly it was reading Malthus that Darwin said he had his his lights on moment. If all forms of life not just human life are surging and doubling and doubling and doubled again but there's simply not the room or the capacity or the resources then all he all life human animal plot is banging up against constraints. Under those conditions Darwin said what's going to favor one rather than another.

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