RE: The dawn of civilization
December 14, 2018 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2018 at 6:52 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
That's hardly the same thing. The leopards in the story were loosing prey grounds to human beings. There's a helluva lot of difference between 21st century India and 15000 BCE.
Malthus explains that left to themselves, predator/prey populations will maintain a stasis. Outside influences (Malthus' point was geometric human expansion in the modern era) destroy that stasis. The world population today is (roughly) 7 thousand times what it was in the late Paleolithic. Uncle Ogg and his tribe weren't a significant factor in the lions' food supply.
Boru
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Malthus explains that left to themselves, predator/prey populations will maintain a stasis. Outside influences (Malthus' point was geometric human expansion in the modern era) destroy that stasis. The world population today is (roughly) 7 thousand times what it was in the late Paleolithic. Uncle Ogg and his tribe weren't a significant factor in the lions' food supply.
Boru
edit: ninja'd
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