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⇑Population Studies at University of Geneva

Language: French Studies in French

University website: www.unige.ch/

Programme: Population Studies
Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: Doctorat ès sciences de la société Mention démographie/PhD in Social Science Option Population Studies

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Population

In biology, a population is all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding. The area that is used to define a sexual population is defined as the area where inter-breeding is potentially possible between any pair within the area, and where the probability of interbreeding is greater than the probability of cross-breeding with individuals from other areas.

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Population

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio, Subsistence, increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Thomas Robert Malthus An Essay on The Principle of Population, Chapter I, paragraph 18, lines 1-2.

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Population

If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: “Every moment dies a man, every moment 1 1/16 is born.” Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry.

Charles Babbage, cited in: New Scientist, 4 December 1958, pg.1428.

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