| 单词 | population |
| 例句 | Only in 1928 did the first careful estimate of the indigenous population appear. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Before the Agricultural Revolution, the human population of the entire planet was smaller than that of today’s Cairo. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Another is that the Indigenous populations were decimated by diseases brought by the Europeans such as smallpox and diphtheria. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The largest unmentioned and presumably excluded constituency was the black population, about 90 percent of which was enslaved. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The 2000 census revealed that one-third of Clarkston’s population was foreign-born, though almost everyone suspected the number was higher because census estimates did not account for large numbers of refugees and immigrants living together. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z As populations rose, “farmers cleared new fields from the remaining forests.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The population of Europe and western Asia between 130,000 and 40,000 years ago is represented by especially many skeletons, known as Neanderthals and sometimes classified as a separate species, Homo neanderthalensis. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That means that all modern humans arose from a very small population base, which would explain our lack of genetic diversity. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Nazis continued to lower their net over the Jewish population. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Although the majority of the population had—by choice or by force—become Christian, the church saw Europe’s Jews and Muslims as threats to its power. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The population of District 12 waits, sweating and silent, in the square with machine guns trained on them. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “That’s primordial ooze! It’s brimming with microbes! Back in the Age of Mortality, this single basin could have wiped out entire populations. It was called ‘disease.’” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Instead, the mystery involves blacks, Pygmies, and Khoisan, whose distributions hint at past population upheavals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The distinction between the two “races” of flies by virtue of a single chromosomal inversion was the most dramatic example of genetic variation that any geneticist had ever seen in a natural population. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For the New World as a whole, the Indian population decline in the century or two following Columbus’s arrival is estimated to have been as large as 95 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the last Ice Age, much of the world’s population lived in societies similar to that of the Fayu today, and no people then lived in a much more complex society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In reality, there are only a few New Guinean—like populations in the Philippine/western Indonesia area, notably the Negritos living in mountainous areas of the Philippines. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In addition to restricting the overall size of their virtual environments, earlier MMOs had been forced to limit their virtual populations, usually to a few thousand users per server. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Back in the 1930s, warden Lewis Lawes had upset the inmate population by prohibiting the popular practice of tending rabbits. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In June 2012, the United Nations estimated that up to two-thirds of the population was malnourished. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z As population densities rose, food production became increasingly favored because it provided the increased food outputs needed to feed all those people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A great deal of time is required, even after a single spraying, for most of these insects to build up sufficient numbers to support a normal salmon population — time measured in years rather than months. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Hence the case for population replacement in Europe is less strong or less direct. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Spanish sack of Tawantinsuyu calamitously expanded on this tradition of plunder, which has greatly accelerated in modern times, fueled by the desperate poverty of Peru’s Indian population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Do you understand? Which is better, that forty thousand of us remain, or that the whole population perish? We must choose!” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z The theoretically more interesting field of inferential statistics uses probability theory to make predictions, to estimate important characteristics of a population, and to test the validity of hypotheses. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Numerous black colleges were located in Atlanta, and the city was home to the South’s largest population of college-educated African Americans. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It goes some way toward explaining how confidential information, rumors, and jokes percolate so rapidly through a population. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike Zaire or Paraguay, Japan and the other new powers were able to exploit the transistor quickly because their populations already had a long history of literacy, metal machinery, and centralized government. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After Cortes, the population of the entire region collapsed. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But the village population changes every day because the Angkar constantly moves people in and out of the village, which is how we ended up in an empty house. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Bacterial infections sweep through their populations like the plagues of old; under the onset of a virus their hordes sicken and die. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Beyond that, what was the population of the Western Hemisphere in 1491? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z From up onstage, it seemed like the school’s population had doubled. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z According to this view, Sapiens replaced all the previous human populations without merging with them. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In this book on human population movements since the end of the Ice Ages, the Austronesian expansion occupies a central place, as one of the most important phenomena to be explained. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If you didn’t stop the epidemic in the prisons, he said, any lasting accomplishments with the outside population would be questionable. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z It reduced the island’s cat population by at least two-thirds. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Within the last 5,000 years, some of those productive regions witnessed an intensification of Aboriginal food-gathering methods, and a buildup of Aboriginal population density. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And by dead, I mean it was like the entire possum population of suburban Indiana. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “A number designed to rank my intelligence in relation to the entire human population,” said Jake. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the Brazilians looked at the fourth main haplogroup—Haplogroup A is its unimaginative name—which is almost completely absent from Siberia but found in every Native American population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The way was therefore clear for a tremendous population explosion. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Maybe the female population of Europe finally realized he’s as compelling as a wet ball of yarn,” Alex suggests. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z With more than a million troops on active duty, about five percent of the country’s population is in uniform, compared with about half of one percent in the United States. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It is the largest population of child offenders condemned to die in prison in any single jurisdiction in the world. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z On March 12, 1938, Hitler ordered his army to march into Austria, a country that had a large ethnic German population. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z One of the oldest cities in Siberia, with a population of half a million, Tomsk, and the huge territory around it, had a serious MDR problem. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the 1990s, North Korea has been unable to grow, buy, or deliver enough food to feed its population. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In Pyongyang, living standards for the core class are luxurious only by the standards of a country where a third of the population is chronically hungry. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The modern population of the world now hears all music through the filter - some would say imperfection - of Equal Temperament. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z During the decade following Redemption, the convict population grew ten times faster than the general population: “Prisoners became younger and blacker, and the length of their sentences soared.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z If the distribution of the population is not too dispersed or varied, we can, again, have more confidence that the sample’s characteristics are representative. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It killed a third of the native population before jumping to Puerto Rico and Cuba. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Twenty percent of Kerala’s population were Syrian Christians, who believed that they were descendants of the one hundred Brahmins whom St. Thomas the Apostle converted to Christianity when he traveled East after the Resurrection. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The caribou population increased, and this in turn increased the number of wolves who prey on the caribou. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A final consideration mandating complex organization for large societies has to do with population densities. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The neighborhood experienced a dramatic population influx in the 1840s, when the Irish potato famine led to a great migration to America, as tens of thousands of Irish immigrants landed in Boston. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Half the population of Epiphany is convinced that Luke Potter will become so famous that his name will become a noun like Kleenex or Coke. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z An equivalent loss today would reduce the population of New York City to 56,000, not enough to fill Yankee Stadium. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z How does a name migrate through the population, and why? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The majority of the town’s population was in hiding for a week, and more people went into hiding after the arrival of more messengers. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “He was wrong about the population counts . . . sort of. The numbers don’t document all the factionless—only certain ones. And I’ll bet you can guess which ones those are.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Then she would move on to other large populations, leaving the survivors to multiply. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Unlike Easter Island and other remote Polynesian islands, Greenland could not support a self-sufficient food-producing society, though it did support self-sufficient Inuit hunter-gatherer populations before, during, and after the Norse occupation period. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So now, my dad told me, there are so few babies being born that the population’s going to be cut in half.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Of all the Regions, it alone showed a positive population decline over the past half century. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Athens in the time of Pericles, Plato and Aristotle had a vast slave population. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Committee for Refugees estimated that approximately two hundred thousand people, or slightly less than a fifth of the total population of the Nuba region, were killed in what it called the Nuba genocide. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z “He saw that these people are the most vulnerable, the most disliked by the local population. So he gave himself to them,” says a church volunteer, Pedro Leyva. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z And when N — 0 the population, is extinct. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The basic cause, we suspect, was that the Neolithic Revolution had been too successful in this area, permitting the local population to grow beyond the available food supply. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In Shalimar there was general merriment at his quick return, and Pilate blended into the population like a stick of butter in a churn. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it the wicked leaders who led innocent populations to slaughter, or was it wicked populations who chose leaders after their own hearts? The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z So the answer would have to be "high growth," especially with an aging population. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z It seemed as if the entire population of Alexandra had been arrested. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Human populations reproduce at the rate of roughly three generations per century, but new insect generations arise in a matter of days or weeks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One reason just mentioned is that agriculture sustains much higher human population densities than does the hunting-gathering lifestyle—on the average, 10 to 100 times higher. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the other hand, human population densities were gradually rising throughout the late Pleistocene anyway, thanks to improvements in human technology for collecting and processing wild foods. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This token infestation is harmless and is actually needed in order to maintain a population of beetles as protection against a future increase in the weed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z With such an extraordinarily large population to choose from, decisions must be made regarding who should be targeted and where the drug war should be waged. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For some reason, Burnt Mill Creek had an inordinately large population of Germans—families with last names such as Schwarzkopf, Grunwald, or Shoemaker. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The Game and Fish Commission predicted that even without further pollution the pattern of the fish population of the river would be altered for years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A mild infestation gives trees and shrubbery a mottled or salt-and-pepper appearance; with a heavy mite population, foliage turns yellow and falls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ecologists have since employed more sophisticated theoretical tools to produce new, lower population estimates; ethologist Dale Lott put the number of bison in “primitive America” at twenty-four to twenty- seven million in 2002. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As new Malthusian limits were imposed—diseases, famines, parasites—new breeds gained a stronghold, and the population shifted again. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If the sample is large, we can have more confidence that its characteristics are close to those of the population as a whole. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z All those momentous consequences of pottery triggered a population explosion, causing Japan’s population to climb from an estimated few thousand people to a quarter of a million. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After half a million years ago, the human populations of Africa and western Eurasia proceeded to diverge from each other and from East Asian populations in skeletal details. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And also the large population of his hometown. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And now most of us are just doing what society wants us to do—contributing to the jail population, selling drugs, having babies, living on welfare. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Caught in a lush, green trap, Indian villages could not possibly have grown as large as he reported—indeed, Meggers once proposed an upper limit of a thousand on their population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then, in 1622, the Powhatan Confederacy attacked several new settlements and killed nearly three hundred fifty people—about a third of the settler population. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Most people imagine that the explosion in the U.S. prison population during the past twenty-five years reflects changes in crime rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When A is less than 1, the population gets smaller and smaller and goes extinct. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There were about 60,000 Jews in Kraków, approximately one quarter of the city's population. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Could the Khoisan, too, have been originally more widespread until their more northerly populations were somehow eliminated? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That’s roughly equivalent to today’s total population of New England, New York, and New Jersey all put together. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Some naturalists think the population may have been overstated by as much as 20 percent, which means that the moose aren’t being so much culled as slaughtered. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The poison that caused the collapse of the honeybees spreads to the human population, and, just as the bees did, humanity goes slowly mad. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Furthermore, the treaty forbade an Anschluss, or “union,” between Austria and Germany, even though a large population of ethnic Germans lived in Austria. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z News that Martin Luther King, Jr., would visit Durham on Thursday, April 4, 1968, boosted the spirits of a beleaguered black population in the Bull City. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It took weeks for an inmate in the general population to get an appointment with a therapist, and the wait between appointments, once a relationship had been established, also seemed to be weeks. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To understand and protect the white shark population, first, biologists must collect age data. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z There was little doubt that Hispanics in Odessa, with their swelling population, were making inroads. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The results of repeated spraying are clearly seen in other streams of the watershed, where alarming declines in the salmon populations are occurring. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Black Africans, who generally lived on only 5 percent of the nation’s land, made up over 80 percent of the population. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The Americas had two empires, those of the Aztecs and Incas, which resembled their Eurasian counterparts in size, population, polyglot makeup, official religions, and origins in the conquest of smaller states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The restaurant is part of a whole block of Korean businesses lodged in converted row apartments dating from the fifties, when the population was still Italian and Irish and Jewish. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, small human populations are also susceptible to nonfatal infections against which we don’t develop immunity, with the result that the same person can become reinfected after recovering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Each country has a population of about ten million, which means that life is far more crowded in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Take, for instance, the latest rumor, which in the months since I was ordained has spread beyond the Scythedom and is whispered among the general population. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The populations of nesting birds in general have declined as much as 90 per cent in some of the sprayed towns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In truth, its population had swelled to the size of a little town. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z In Hardin County, Texas, for example, opossums, armadillos, and an abundant raccoon population virtually disappeared after the chemical was laid down. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The depth and width of Joy were exactly known to me: the Chinese population. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This didn’t stop the Irish population in general from skulking around rainbows, hoping to win the supernatural lottery. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Every year Mama made enough Christmas cookies to feed the entire population of Harlem, and ever since he could remember, she appointed him the distributor. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z According to reports from a local sportsmen’s club, the bird population within the treated area was “virtually wiped out.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z McKusick was a renowned geneticist who’d founded the world’s first human genetics department at Hopkins, where he maintained a catalog of hundreds of genes, including several he’d discovered himself in Amish populations. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In fact, the “bloodbath” school of criminology was touting exactly the opposite theory—that an increase in the teenage share of the population would produce a crop of superpredators who would lay the nation low. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Adding it to water and active bacteria would quickly get it inundated, replacing any population killed by the Toilet of Doom. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, within recent years, molecular geneticists have begun to extract DNA from ancient human skeletons and to compare the genes of Japan’s ancient and modern populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And bringing in screechers would help keep the snail population under control. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Musicians and singers were granted privileges and perks denied the rest of the population in wartime. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z But that doesn’t prove that food production and large populations make complex societies inevitable. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z First, they spread quickly and efficiently from an infected person to nearby healthy people, with the result that the whole population gets exposed within a short time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We all must be cognizant of the close proximity of this Facility to NYC which is home to a major part of our population ...” Blah blah blah. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Durham, where blacks comprised roughly one-third the population, the county provided $155,000 for the education of its white children and only $21,000 for blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Before we trace Khoisan survival beyond the Bantu tide, let’s see what archaeology tells us about Africa’s other great prehistoric population movement—the Austronesian colonization of Madagascar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It flowered almost year-round and as far as I could tell, most of the local bee population seemed to live there. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Mexico isn’t as bad as places like Guatemala and Peru, where the white privilege is so much more overt, but then those countries have a much more sizable black population.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She was widely known for her intelligence, and she received her high school diploma at a time when education was not a priority for the female population in Iran. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Historically, we’ve seen movement north in the summer and south in the winter. But I think the fact that we are seeing so many lately is largely due to the increasing seal populations.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The real population growth in the 1990s was in fact among the elderly. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Before that numbers were hopelessly unreliable, and no one bothered to produce population figures for whole countries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Half the population hoped to overthrow the government and the other half defended it, and no one had time to worry about work. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Ceaugescu’s ban on abortion was designed to achieve one of his major aims: to rapidly strengthen Romania by boosting its population. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Chief Opechancanough did mount one more large attack on the settlers, in 1644, but by then the European population had grown and the Indian population had been decimated. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z We had already concluded that the formation of complex societies is somehow linked to population pressure, so we should now seek a link between population pressure and the outcome of war. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Situated in the coastal plain of southwest Alabama, the fertile, rich black soil of the area attracted white settlers from the Carolinas who amassed very successful plantations and a huge slave population. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z "I think these lice are cooked and you're ready to be sent down to population." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The very low rainfall and productivity of most of Australia makes it effectively even smaller as regards its capacity to support human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Never had I seen that many books in my life; even our school, with a student population of over two thousand, did not have half as many books. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z But, for the record: Twenty-two percent of the world’s population sees ghosts—that’s over one and a half billion people worldwide. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Those postulated rates of spread and of population increase are very low compared with actual known rates for peoples occupying previously uninhabited or sparsely inhabited lands. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Third, relative to the size of the black population, lynchings were exceedingly rare. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z That landscape testifies to the population densities achieved in the highlands by farmers with stone tools. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The two populations remained completely distinct, and when the Neanderthals died out, or were killed off, their genes died with them. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, in England itself only 3 percent of the population had the right to vote. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z With the advent of DDT and the even more toxic chemicals to follow, the populations of the vedalia in many sections of California were wiped out. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In the next hundred years, the population of most southern areas declined by at least three-quarters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I live in a city where twenty-five per cent of the population is Negro and I doubt that the percentage is much higher, except in spots, in the eleven Civil War States. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They use the plagues to cull the population of weak genes, the same way the Trials pick out the strongest. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The one-sidedness of that exchange of germs becomes even more striking when we recall that large, dense human populations are a prerequisite for the evolution of our crowd infectious diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the early years, 30 percent of Levittown’s population was under five years old. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The savaged population of Europe stood helpless as plowshares and pruning hooks were literally beaten into swords and spears.' Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite the school drawing from a state with roughly the population of Angola, Australia, or Afghanistan, Prince was the only black child. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The population in the village is growing smaller by the day. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of them, put together just after epidemics, would have represented population nadirs, not approximations of precontact numbers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The slave population in North America grew over time as parents lived long enough to have children. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z But that advantage alone doesn’t fully explain how initially so few European immigrants came to supplant so much of the native population of the Americas and some other parts of the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They lived through that epidemic, which took, what? ten percent of the world’s population. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z According to the Interbreeding Theory, when Sapiens spread into Neanderthal lands, Sapiens bred with Neanderthals until the two populations merged. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Is it intensive food production that is the cause, triggering population growth and somehow leading to a complex society? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In short, plant and animal domestication meant much more food and hence much denser human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All other Austronesian languages, from those on Madagascar to those on Easter Island, would then stem from a population expansion out of Taiwan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But when A is greater than 3.57 the population becomes chaotic like in the first graph. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z With Richardson’s curve and the simplest extrapolation for the future growth of the human population, the two curves do not intersect until the thirtieth century or so, and Doomsday is deferred. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A second reason is the growing impossibility of communal decision making with increasing population size. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The rapid spread of microbes, and the rapid course of symptoms, mean that everybody in a local human population is quickly infected and soon thereafter is either dead or else recovered and immune. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Everyone has a different graduation day, and the population is constantly rolling. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The population is barely one thousand, and the most remarkable thing about it seems to be that it’s known for its large number of TV and radio transmitter towers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It looked out on the green, the colored population’s park. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In the rice fields of eastern Texas, this practice has seriously reduced the populations of the fulvous tree duck, a tawny-colored, gooselike duck of the Gulf Coast. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Whether the human race can actually maintain a population of five billion or more without a crash with a hot virus remains an open question. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In a population of about eleven million, the country boasted more doctors per capita than any other country in the world, and twice as many per capita as the United States. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z For starters, despite the fact that black people made up over 80 percent of South Africa’s population, the territory allocated for the homelands was about 13 percent of the country’s land. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The newcomers were encouraged to keep theft- own dress and customs rather than integrate into the host population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When she thought of the restrictions imposed on the slave population, she longed to return to Maryland to bring out more slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As regards population size, chiefdoms were considerably larger than tribes, ranging from several thousand to several tens of thousands of people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The largest population replacement of the last 13,000 years has been the one resulting from the recent collision between Old World and New World societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Resistance, therefore, is something that develops in a population after time measured in several or many generations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Twenty years later, he raised his estimate of Indian deaths—and hence of the initial population—to forty million. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If in good years they had settled in villages, grown crops, and produced babies, those large populations would have starved and died off in drought years, when the land could support far fewer people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Racial and economic sorting in the South Shore neighborhood continued through the 1970s, meaning that the student population only grew blacker and poorer with each year. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They built new airstrips as they needed them and lived with the local population or even in hastily dug trenches in the ground sheltered by tarpaulin sheets. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z By one estimate, its population dwindled to about three thousand—a third of what it had been seventy years earlier. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Only after the first Polynesian settlers had exterminated moas and decimated seal populations on New Zealand, and exterminated or decimated seabirds and land birds on other Polynesian islands, did they intensify their food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Starting with a population with natural variation in gene configurations, he had added a force of natural selection: temperature. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Every two species that evolved from a common ancestor, such as horses and donkeys, were at one time just two populations of the same species, like bulldogs and spaniels. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The much heavier consequence was that the Dutch settlers in 1652 had to contend only with a sparse population of Khoisan herders, not with a dense population of steel-equipped Bantu farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Rapidly changing populations in the U.S. will dramatically alter the demographics for the remainder of the century. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Now they would see what Ebola could do naturally in a population of monkeys living in a confined air space, in a kind of city, as it were. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a hitherto unprecedented golden age of successive human population explosions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As for the aging of the population, because of heavy immigration to New York in the 1980s, the city was getting younger in the 1990s, not older. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the highlands, already occupied by dense populations of New Guineans, were not reached by Europeans until the 1930s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And the local public schools continue to fail the refugee population—and American students as well. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Among modern foragers, forty-five-year-old women can expect to live another twenty years, and about 5–8 per cent of the population is over sixty. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They developed locally dense populations chronically engaged in ferocious wars with neighboring populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Rather, it translated into population explosions and pampered elites. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But if wild populations with variations in genotype keep interbreeding, Dobzhansky knew, a new species would never be formed: a species, after all, is fundamentally defined by its inability to interbreed with another. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Its populations have dwindled alarmingly within the past decade. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z That rate is much higher than observed for hunter-gatherer populations but is easily attained by farmers: Kenya’s population is now growing at 4.5 percent per year. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Like many American cities during the 1930s, Washington, D.C., with its large black population, was still segregated along racial lines. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z The island Indians, whose estimated population at the time of their “discovery” exceeded a million, were rapidly exterminated on most islands by disease, dispossession, enslavement, warfare, and casual murder. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The accused have told me and their counsel have told me that the accused who were all leaders of the non-European population were motivated entirely by a desire to ameliorate these grievances. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In their subsistence modes, Polynesians ranged from the hunter-gatherers of the Chathams, through slash-and-burn farmers, to practitioners of intensive food production living at some of the highest population densities of any human societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They live together in dense, interdependent communities, feeding and supporting the environment for each other, regulating the balance of populations between different species by a complex system of chemical signals. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A population of organisms in the wild must have enough natural variation such that winners and losers can be picked. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Over 115 million African blacks—close to the 1930’s population of the United States—were murdered or enslaved during the slave trade. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire population would be driven to the coast. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Only affluent Baldwin County to the south, with its beautiful Gulf of Mexico beaches, was atypical, with an African American population of just 9 percent. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The multicultural perspective tends to cast Indigenous peoples in general as an oppressed racial group without considering important political differences between the Native nations and other oppressed populations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As much as a third of the male population was in uniform, as were many children. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Instead, one part of the explanation for farmer power lies in the much denser populations that food production could support: ten naked farmers certainly would have an advantage over one naked hunter-gatherer in a fight. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z T. Ray and I lived just outside Sylvan, South Carolina, population 3,100. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Male citizens of age, who were entitled and expected to vote in the general assembly, made up no more than a quarter of the total adult population. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z During epidemics this is where they are to be found in the majority of the host population, and it generally goes well. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One effect of these laws was an increase in the prison population, over the next twenty-five years, of 560 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z More important, the very existence of so much healthy forest after twelve thousand years of use by large populations suggests that whatever Indians did before swidden must have been ecologically more sustainable. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z We live in societies that mass-produce facts: packages are marked with weights, road signs tell you distances and, in some countries, the populations of the towns you are passing through. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The vast population of the city had not the vaguest notion of the great discoveries taking place within the Library. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the entire period of their inshore life, the welfare of the shrimp populations and of the industry they support depends upon favorable conditions in the estuaries. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It can be beneficial if it means that a population lacks deleterious genes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Because of the small population, die old courting rituals had nearly ceased. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The problem nevertheless exists and it affects significant numbers of the population. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Nearly the entire Negro population of Bumblebee stood in the street, quietly waiting while the three men voted. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Inevitably, this highly productive system of intensive agriculture triggered an immediate population explosion in Kyushu, where archaeologists have identified far more Yayoi sites than Jomon sites, even though the Jomon period lasted 14 times longer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As the African immigrants spread around the world, they bred with other human populations, and people today are the outcome of this interbreeding. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The town of Buford itself was a collection of portable metal sheds - six or seven, which was probably also the town’s population. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The Arizona Republican said that Spencer, with his “diseased mind and a misguided love of adventure,” appealed to the “portion of the population of the country that fed on false idolatry.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Still other infections of small human populations are chronic diseases such as leprosy and yaws. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z America seemed a society moving rapidly toward a greater accommodation of its diverse population; South Africa on the other hand was moving with equal speed, if not more, toward a total separation of all races. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The Head Peacekeeper comes back with more instructions for the population. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z All sorts of revolutionary changes in technology are postulated for the future, ranging from final control of human disease to solutions of the world food and population problems. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn't want to go into population—not after what I had seen happen to Lucas in West Street, and what I imagined was waiting for me in Ashland. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Keeps them away from the rest of the population.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I shudder to think how many more scythes it would take, and how many gleanings would be required, if we ever need to curb population growth altogether. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Still, North Carolina’s white population would likely have accepted integrated schools if the state’s new governor had used his position to push for such a path. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Under the microscopes, their long tails furiously lashing, spermatozoa were burrowing head first into eggs; and, fertilized, the eggs were expanding, dividing, or if bokanovskified, budding and breaking up into whole populations of separate embryos. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z What the athletes also gave him was an ability to reach into every slice of the school’s population, into every self-defined and self-limiting clique. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z At the opposite extreme, some aboriginal fishing groups of southeastern Australia devised elaborate technologies for managing fish populations, including the construction of canals, weirs, and standing traps. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When these townships were established, Afrikaners, or whites of Dutch ancestry, made up 9 percent of the population. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Each plant population becomes genetically programmed, through natural selection, to respond appropriately to signals of the seasonal regime under which it has evolved. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You realize that our Negro population is backward, don’t you? You will concede that? You realize the full implications of the word ‘backward,’ don’t you?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Even before the government’s efforts to remove it, Sophiatown held a symbolic importance for Africans disproportionate to its small population. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Possibly he was imagining what it would be like to discover a whole new population of carriers of the 5-alpha-reductase mutation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The square's quite large, but not enough to hold District 12's population of about eight thousand. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Its population was due to cross the two thousand mark any time. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Poor in natural resources, its trade crippled by high tariffs and low demand, Japan was struggling to support a growing population. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z “Although they represented scarcely i% of the Bantu population they took it upon themselves to tell the world that the Africans in South Africa are suppressed, oppressed and depressed.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The result of the sweet potato’s arrival was a highland population explosion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Saint Paul has a large population of Southeast Asian refugees, and de la O mentored Hmong teens from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z England had already conquered Wales and Scotland, but before its assault on Ireland it had never attempted to replace such a large Indigenous population with settlers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The long-lasting, crowded populations suggested in Acre are exactly the sort that archaeologists long thought were ecologically impossible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In her view, monumental buildings implied a large resident population, but again there were plenty of anchovy bones and little evidence that locals farmed anything but cotton. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Today, over 50 percent of prison and jail inmates in the United States have a diagnosed mental illness, a rate nearly five times greater than that of the general adult population. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Nitrogen mustard, after all, is not sprayed upon whole populations from the air; its use is in the hands of experimental biologists or of physicians who use it in cancer therapy. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At the time, its population was about three million, perhaps a tenth that of the Mexica empire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I managed a bit of enthusiasm for that line, backed up as it was by my experience with pretty much the entire Stokum population. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I’d somehow, inadvertently, done something that’d given the population at this school permission to put me in a different kind of box, and I didn’t know how to deal with it. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z This book tells the story of the United States as a colonialist settler-state, one that sought to crush and subjugate Indigenous populations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Professor Maurice Brooks of the University of West Virginia, an authority on the birds of the Appalachian region, reported that the West Virginia bird population had undergone “an incredible reduction.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Why should wars tend to cause amalgamations of societies when populations are dense but not when they are sparse? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Water systems, electrical plants, school systems, and hospitals all struggled to keep pace with the growing population. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z So the populations did not merge, but a few lucky Neanderthal genes did hitch a ride on the Sapiens Express. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The only hope for the wild animal populations in these countries is that, because animals are disappearing fast, they are harder to find and kill. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z There would be no disregarding this sound, which seems designed to throw the whole population into a frenzy. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The original Native American population has been reduced by a debated large percentage: estimates for North America range up to 95 percent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent of the pre-Columbian Native American population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He genuinely wondered, even as he estimated himself to fall in the top twenty percent of the general population, careerwise. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He certainly had no budget to buy them, and the parent population of Truman had no such furniture to lend. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z South of the Potomac was a different matter altogether, since approximately 90 percent of the total black population resided there. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z G. A hot strain radiated out of him and nearly devastated the human population of southern Sudan. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Because the hospital cells were off limits to the general population, we had a number of traveling prisoners stay with us. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Time, indeed a considerable stretch of time, would be required to allow the bonding together of this large, widely dispersed, and diverse population. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Although rural counties contain only 20 percent of the U.S. population, 60 percent of new prison construction occurs there. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z On the other hand, they were not just different populations of the same species, like bulldogs and spaniels. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The boat carried more people than the population of some cities. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The other two are nouns as well as adjectives: epidemic refers to something widespread in a particular community or population, and pandemic to something that has spread to an entire country, continent, or beyond. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Only in larger populations can the disease shift from one local area to another, thereby persisting until enough babies have been born in the originally infected area that measles can return there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Back on the highway, Kyril Montana drove a mile and a half south to the eastern turnoff into town where the surviving population of Milagro was settled. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately for Pizarro and unfortunately for the Incas, smallpox had arrived overland around 1526, killing much of the Inca population, including both the emperor Huayna Capac and his designated successor. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He intended to unite all Germans into a Greater Germany, including ethnic Germans who lived in Austria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other countries with large German populations. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The Calvinists aboard the Mayflower believed that the epidemic was evidence of God’s grace and goodness, because it had greatly reduced the population of the area the Plymouth Colony would occupy. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z He had imagined many times a ceremony in Harken Square, organized to thank him for saving Ember, with the entire population in attendance and his father beaming from the front row. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Fremont has the largest population of Afghans in the United States,” said Uncle Amin. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z But a decade later, the rapidly growing prison population inevitably led to a deterioration in the conditions of confinement. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As law enforcement budgets exploded, so did prison and jail populations. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Originally, historians stated that roughly 620,000 soldiers and sailors, about 2 percent of the population, were killed in the Civil War. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he talked about world population and the task of the world’s scythes, if not to level it, then to wrangle it to a reasonable ratio. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Tahlequah was a small country town with a population of about eight hundred. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z All the usual constraints that limit the use of medical care by the general population are absent. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Escapees from earlier deportations had furtively returned to the ghetto with stories of trains filled with people entering a camp and leaving empty, even though the population of the camp never increased. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Of more lasting significance was a large-scale population shift within Africa itself, the Bantu expansion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One of the important mammal species hunted for meat, the gazelle, originally lived in huge herds but was overexploited by the growing human population and reduced to low numbers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When we think of major overseas population movements, we tend to focus on those since Columbus’s discovery of the Americas, and on the resulting replacements of non-Europeans by Europeans within historic times. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All radio and television programs were interrupted with announcements that the population must go down into their cellars immediately. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z But now their numbers overwhelm the Box, so they stay put, mixed in with the general population—except they can’t come out of their cells. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Year by year, its population had shrunk; now it was fewer than fourteen hundred. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Military historian John Grenier observes that any time it appeared that the Indigenous population might outnumber settlers in a region, the settlers were quick to resort to “extravagant violence.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z One study suggests that the entire increase in the prison population from 1980 to 2001 can be explained by sentencing policy changes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z So overwhelming was this Chinese steamroller that the former peoples of tropical Southeast Asia have left behind few traces in the region’s modern populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It was a horse-drawn cart. Donated by a Victorian merchant named George Moore to ‘diffuse good literature among the rural population.’” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Moreover, vast tracts in the West had already been promised to the Indians, whose response to a population of black neighbors was likely to prove uncharitable in the extreme. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z It was a week before the race laws went into effect and violence against the colored population was on the rise in rehearsal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z First we decided we wanted to count ten-centimeter-by-ten-centimeter squares, which was my suggestion after Mr. Terupt talked to us about sampling and how our government gets population numbers. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z There were thousands of British troops quartered in New York, and British sailors, too, besides the regular population of 25,000. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z With this body of files we could sift and sort through the population of the district by gender, race, ethnicity, party affiliation, occupation. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z So, a few minutes later, the entire population of Egypt was sneaking up the alley on the way to sort over the florist’s recent rejects. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The children of tall men and women were certainly taller than the mean height of the population, but they too varied in a bell-shaped curve, with some taller and some shorter than their parents.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If this were not so, it is doubtful that any conceivable volume of chemicals — or any other methods — could possibly keep down their populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It had been approved and executed with the intent of controlling the population. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Obtaining Personal Information The name of the game in statistics is the inferring of information about a large population by examining characteristics of a small, randomly selected sample. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z As population density increases, the territory of that band-sized population of a few dozen would shrink to a small area, with more and more of life’s necessities having to be obtained outside the area. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z According to a 1999 estimate from the United Nations, the earth’s population in the beginning of the sixteenth century was about 500 million. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And Jews were being rounded up and separated from the rest of the population. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Around that time, a population of African apes broke up into several populations, of which one proceeded to evolve into modern gorillas, a second into the two modern chimps, and the third into humans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At its zenith, Monte Alban housed seventeen thousand people and was by a considerable margin the biggest and most powerful population center in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z All these types of diseases, characteristic of small isolated populations, must be the oldest diseases of humanity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Collectively recoiling from the native population of the Americas, Europeans learned how to become a new version of themselves. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the latter region the indigenous population disappeared—presumably driven off, killed, infected, or assimilated by the invaders. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When N = 1 the population is the biggest it can get. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Instead of having fluctuating populations that periodically outran their resources and starved, they maintained smaller populations that enjoyed an abundance of food in good years and a sufficiency in bad years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I already mentioned that the invention of pottery in Kyushu around 12,700 years ago and the resulting Jomon population explosion were the first of two decisive changes in Japanese history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He argued that without disease, famine, and poverty, the human population would grow too fast. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Research on inmates would come under scrutiny and start being heavily regulated about fifteen years later, because they’d be considered a vulnerable population unable to give informed consent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The third reason has to do with population pressure within the spider mite colonies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In no part of Oceania do the inhabitants have the feeling that they are a colonial population ruled from a distant capital. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z When you enter population will you meet us in the bathroom? Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z It will be protested that internists and their households are really full-time captive patients and cannot fairly be compared to the rest of the population. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We imagined the places we would go and the people we would meet, far away from Bartlett, Indiana, population 14,983, where we felt like aliens from some distant planet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I served on the first ship, the Fowey man-of-war; and then back to the Palace, where I stood as a picket guard when the population was got all restive. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The two populations now evolve independently, à la Darwin—until particular gene variants are selected in the two sites that become biologically incompatible. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The other students uttered the most horrible things about the colored population of Boston, about their smell, their intellectual deficiencies, their primitive drives. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The province of the Orange Free State has always had a magical effect on me, though some of the most racist elements of the white population call the Free State their home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The population of Nzara had grown in recent years—the town had experienced, in its own way, the human population explosion that is occurring throughout the equatorial regions of the earth. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Imre’s population griped about unnatural arts being practiced two miles away, but when an aqueduct collapsed or someone fell suddenly sick, they were quick to call on engineers and doctors trained at the University. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z When Lawes arrived in 1920, Sing Sing had a population of slightly over one thousand, all housed in the original cellblock. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Genes that produce fitness become gradually overrepresented in populations through the selection of phenotypes, thereby allowing organisms to become more and more adapted to their environments. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Drugging the entire population is the best solution to our problem. Great plan.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “They had a few small mines, yes. But not enough to justify a population of that size. That, I guess, is the only thing we know for sure,” says Twill. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Australian Aborigines, of course, stood in the way of European food production, especially because what was potentially the most productive farmland and dairy country initially supported Australia’s densest populations of Aboriginal hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But love, which had, perhaps, like a benevolent monarch, swelled the population of his neighboring kingdom, Death, had not himself descended: they owed him no allegiance here. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z In 1960, a full 75 percent of the foreign-born population residing in the United States was from Europe. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Cereal crops alone now account for more than half of the calories consumed by the world’s human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Without any apparent volition by Cortes, the great city lost at least a third of its population to the epidemic, including Cuitlahuac. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Few would guess that our prison population leaped from approximately 350,000 to 2.3 million in such a short period of time due to changes in laws and policies, not changes in crime rates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z You probably don’t know it, but Manchester and its smoky suburbs have got quite a large Jewish population, and nobody minds. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The variations among Polynesian societies associated with different population densities and sizes were as follows. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1941, Leningrad had a population twice the size of modern Manhattan; Moscow was bigger than Los Angeles is today. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Polling with Confidence Estimating characteristics of a population, such as the percentage who favor a certain candidate or a particular brand of dog food, is, like hypothesis testing, simple in principle. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Such a system set the stage for explosive increases in specific insect populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Jean Louise,” he said dryly, “not much more than five per cent of the South’s population ever saw a slave, much less owned one. Now, something must have irritated the other ninety-five per cent.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In contrast, the crowd diseases, which we discussed earlier, could have arisen only with the buildup of large, dense human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Farming enabled populations to increase so radically and rapidly that no complex agricultural society could ever again sustain itself if it returned to hunting and gathering. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A majority of its white population initially appeared ready to accept desegregation, albeit unhappily. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Historians who project large Indian populations, Low Counter critics say, are committing the intellectual sin of arguing from silence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It is amazing what a single owl can do to a local population of ruffled grouse and rabbits in just a few months. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z Hispanics made up 47 percent of the student population and blacks and other minorities the remaining 5 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There are enough antiques for sale along the roads of New England alone to furnish the houses of a population of fifty million. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There was just one exception to this rule: Louisiana, where the native-born enslaved population kept dropping. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Today, the total population of Africa is less than 700 million, compared with 4 billion for Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the basis of one murder it has judged the character, honor, and integrity of the entire population. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z With its fine roads and great population movements, Tawantinsuyu was perfectly positioned for a major epidemic. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Of course, the Americas in aggregate are anything but small: their combined area is fully 76 percent that of Eurasia, and their human population as of A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Greenland Norse population never exceeded a few thousand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z All the major European capitals—Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, Vienna—were metropolitan centers that gathered together the political, economic, and cultural energies of their respective populations in one place. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The brush along the road stirred restively under a new and unexpected population of gray tigers and gray bears. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Where this has been done, the beetle populations have been kept at relatively low levels, as many records attest. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z How could those Austronesian-speaking farmers from South China via Taiwan replace the original hunter-gatherer population of the Philippines and western Indonesia so completely that little genetic and no linguistic evidence of that original population survived? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Once destroyed, populations of these insects, so essential to the survival of trout, take a long time to rebuild. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The number of generations produced by an insect population in a year is important, and this varies with species and climate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z All of this had implications for animal populations. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A red dot was moving rapidly through the countryside toward the human population. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Marie-Laure has to badger her father three times before he’ll read the notice aloud: Members of the population must relinquish all radio receivers now in their possession. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When the gypsies came back, Úrsula had turned the whole population of the village against them. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In many ways, the Green Revolution was a tremendous boon; harvests in many poor countries soared so fast that despite burgeoning populations the incidence of hunger fell dramatically. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In 2012, the United States saw the first decline in its prison population in decades. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Perhaps those cycles of colonization, adaptation, and population explosion were what selected for the Great Leap Forward, which then diffused back westward to Eurasia and Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That was the decisive factor in the British Empire’s eventual defeat of New Zealand’s well-armed indigenous Maori population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Federal authorities planned to pry the houses off their bases and send the units to “war-devastated populations in Europe.” Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Most of the wild plant species from which our crops were derived vary genetically from area to area, because alternative mutations had become established among the wild ancestral populations of different areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Five times or more bigger than any other Mississippian polity, Cahokia’s population of at least fifteen thousand made it comparable in size to London, but on a landmass without Paris, Cordoba, or Rome. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Most pollsters agree that people who identify themselves as white evangelical Christians make up about a quarter of the population, just as they have for decades. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z What can archaeology tell us about the other great population movement in recent African prehistory—the Bantu expansion? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The cold winter of 1957-58, when freezing temperatures gripped northern Florida, gave an unexpected opportunity to start the program while the screw-worm populations were reduced and confined to a small area. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “To assassinate President Snow before the loss of life from this war makes our population unsustainable.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Just how much influence will this man have on our black population? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Studies show that measles is likely to die out in any human population numbering fewer than half a million people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some apparent regional or continentwide regressions of technology in Australia may stem from the isolation and relatively few inhabitants of its population centers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Where population densities are moderate, as in regions occupied by food-producing tribes, no large vacant areas remain to which survivors of a defeated band can flee. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Their population dwindled and they slowly died out, except perhaps for one or two members who joined their Sapiens neighbours. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Estimates of Alexandria’s population in the Hellenistic era range from four hundred thousand to one million— bigger than any Mediterranean city except Rome. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The reaping is a good opportunity for the Capitol to keep tabs on the population as well. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z With the housefly, however, more than doubling the population through releases could be highly objectionable, even though the increase would be only temporary. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The ferocity of such a spectacle left that population satisfied and stupefied at the same time. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In a test on an island in the Florida Keys in 1961, a population of flies was nearly wiped out within a period of only five weeks. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “If such preventive measures are not taken,” says Dr. Hueper, “the stage will be set at a progressive rate for the future occurrence of a similar disaster to the human population.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Below Big Brother comes the Inner Party, its numbers limited to six millions, or something less than two per cent of the population of Oceania. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The tanks were defended by nearly as many planes, and about two million soldiers were involved in the fighting—a larger number than the combined populations of present-day Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Opposed to increased busing, Shannon concluded that the quickest, surest way to achieve desegregation was to close Ector High School, since it had a relatively small population. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine a population of organisms with gene variants that are capable of interbreeding. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When Dobzhansky harvested the two cages after four months, he found that the populations had changed dramatically. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Finally, the same pattern of an abrupt start of food production dependent on domesticates from elsewhere, and an abrupt and massive population replacement, seems to have repeated itself in many areas in the prehistoric era. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Homicide convictions account for a tiny fraction of the growth in the prison population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The rubbish heap was still there, breeding its multigenerational population of feral dogs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I soon discovered that if a wayfaring stranger wishes to eavesdrop on a local population the places for him to slip in and hold his peace are bars and churches. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It has brought the non-white two-thirds of the human population to rebellion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t Native American diseases instead decimate the Spanish invaders, spread back to Europe, and wipe out 95 percent of Europe’s population? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the U.S. population, about 14.5 percent of all men are six feet or taller. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z In contrast, many islands with intensive agriculture attained population densities exceeding 120 per square mile. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She looked like those evil geniuses who suddenly figure out a plan to conquer the world and can already imagine earth’s population quivering in their grasp. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Today 10 percent of the world’s population suffers from malaria every year, resulting in almost three million deaths. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In Alabama, for example, biologists of the Alabama Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit conducted a preliminary census of the quail population in a 3600-acre area that was scheduled for treatment. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Part of the population rarely even thinks like this. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The accomplishments of the town's black population were, he wrote, “more striking than that of any similar group in the nation.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z That higher birthrate of food producers, together with their ability to feed more people per acre, lets them achieve much higher population densities than hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What actually happened to all those vanished Khoisan populations? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Florida had the largest population in the world of children condemned to die in prison for non-homicides. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “That’s why we reserved that dormitory for residents with nervous disorders. It doesn’t make sense for them to mix with the larger population. In number 40, they can get the care they require.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The talent of essentially half of the Czech athletic population has been squandered. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And even if a Neanderthal Romeo and a Sapiens Juliet fell in love, they could not produce fertile children, because the genetic gulf separating the two populations was already unbridgeable. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet despite such a careful approach, Carey did go out of his way to vilify one segment of the population: the black volunteers. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The empire had defensible borders, yet the vast majority of the population couldn’t be trusted in the ranks—the Macedonians had a long-standing reluctance to arm the natives. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “No, not officially. But you know what they say about Gutshot: the population never goes up and never goes down, because every time a woman gets pregnant, a man leaves town.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Infected, they mingled with the civilian population and threatened to start an epidemic. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z All the rough-fish population of these waters was destroyed also — the carp, buffalo, drum, gizzard shad, and catfish. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In 1789 the French population switched almost overnight from believing in the myth of the divine right of kings to believing in the myth of the sovereignty of the people. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Because small populations like that probably can’t survive for very long, even if they are protected. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z The township was a city unto itself, with a population of nearly one million. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z In the natural world, variations in genotype exist in wild populations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But despite the relatively small size of the black population in the North, the pattern of racial segregation there suggested that most northern whites shared Jefferson’s belief that “incorporation” was unlikely. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The idea is that in any population of self- reproducing organisms, there will be variations in the genetic material and upbringing that different individuals have. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In his absence the English governor ordered George Percy, a nobleman and Jamestown resident, to take over and destroy the Indigenous population. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Doe was a member of the Krahn tribe, a tiny ethnic group that composed just 4 percent of the population, far less than the larger tribes in Liberia, the Gio and the Mano. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The result was again the start of farming dependent on crops from elsewhere, a failure to domesticate local species, and a massive modern replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Standing at the steam table, watching as the population of B-block shuffled by, each in-mate receiving his plate from the servers, I always thought of an assembly line in a poorly run explosives factory. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first time in close to forty years, the country's prison population did not increase in 2011. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z As a result, people who are classified as violent offenders comprise a much larger share of the prison population than they would if they had earlier release dates. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Cange, with a population of about thirty thousand, might be described as the most impoverished, famished, and disease-ridden place in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Some adults were excited too, but to be certain the whole young population had come down with graduation epidemic. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Muslims make up only about 1 percent of the total US population. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Spraying tends to be repetitive, and a single exposure from which the wildlife populations might have a chance to recover is a rarity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Workers in rural areas, which are home to two-thirds of the population, earn less than a dollar a day on average. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Bush Hill became a pocket of calm and hope, but it could not cure or comfort the entire population of Philadelphia. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z We are told also that milky spore disease cannot be used on the periphery of the beetle’s range because it can be established only where a large grub population is already present in the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is a play that needed to be cast from the full range of the school’s population, particularly the full range of males. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He was the most feared boy in the school, at least among the population that did not carry knives. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z With the move to permanent villages and the increase in food supply, the population began to grow. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They shoot at anything that moves or looks as though it might, and their success in killing one another may well prevent a population explosion. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Corn was their most important crop, but beans, pumpkins, tomatoes, cocoa, and other food crops flourished and supported the dense population. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “I think the various police agencies here and in the Soviet Union have gotten them all. The population is small enough now; everyone, sooner or later, runs into a random checkpoint.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Native American farming served for a long time just as a small supplement to food acquisition by hunting-gathering, and supported only a sparse population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By comparing tooth variation in Asian populations, Turner estimated the approximate rate at which the secondary characteristics in teeth evolved. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It was an example of how policies and norms once directed exclusively at controlling and punishing the black population have filtered their way into our general criminal justice system. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Because at full capacity, it can provide enough water for eight percent of San Diego’s population. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Going even farther, they could reach the large population center at the river’s mouth and connect with the Pacific Coast road. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z If nature could achieve such remarkable effects on animal populations through survival and selection, Galton imagined accelerating the process of refining humans via human intervention. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z For comparison, at that time the population of all Europe extending to the Ural Mountains in Eastern Russia was about seventy million. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Carthage, South Dakota, population 274, is a sleepy little cluster of clapboard houses; tidy yards, and weathered brick storefronts rising humbly from the immensity of the northern plains, set adrift in time. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Jamaica has a very large Chinese population that since the nineteenth century has dominated the commercial life of the island. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “The population will start getting younger again. Get ready.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The overwhelming military superiority of even tiny numbers of mounted Spaniards, together with their political skills at exploiting divisions within the native population, did the rest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I talked about the problems of the human population explosion and deforestation and starvation in Africa. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z In human populations exposed to urethane or related chemicals there is a possibility that tumors will develop in infants through prenatal exposure, as Dr. Hueper has warned. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I don’t understand. Why—” “Why would the factionless have a high Divergent population?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Although demographic shifts were a normal part of life in America at the time, the population swell experienced by the North End made it one of the busiest and liveliest places in the nation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z All the time and money wasted on political posturing, the lives lost in wars, the populations abused by despots—all gone the moment the Thunderhead was handed power. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Even if only half the population went to a shelter, that means that nearly 12 million people would be there, waiting for water. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I’ll make Coin announce it in front of the entire population of Thirteen.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z In short, the variable outcomes of the Austronesian expansion strikingly illustrate the role of food production in human population movements. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the past, the criminal justice system, as punitive as it may have been during various wars on crime and drugs, affected only a relatively small percentage of the population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It takes about two and a half hours to get to Kramer, Indiana, population thirty. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z By late evening, he had walked about six miles and entered the outskirts of Bukchang, a coal town just south of the river with a population of about ten thousand people. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Jellyfish populations are getting so huge, they are stealing the food supply from animals you’d never expect—even penguins in Antarctica. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z That paradox developed because human population densities rose slightly more steeply than did the availability of food. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Phoenix is three times bigger than Seattle — just in population. In physical size —” “But apparently,” he interrupted me, “your number wasn’t up in Phoenix. So I’d rather you stayed near me.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Bombs were dropped on the helpless civilian population. Residential areas were their sole targets, and it was obvious that this strategy had nothing to do with any military targets. Simply put, it was sheer terror.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The long interactions between Africa’s many peoples generated its fascinating prehistory, including two of the most dramatic population movements of the past 5,000 years—the Bantu expansion and the Indonesian colonization of Madagascar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Outside, the entire population of the Ridge seemed to line the walkway that spiraled down the interior of the mountain. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The changes in the drug trade, the population, and the economy are all long-term trends, happening all over the country. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z With that as background, we shall finally return to the question of how a simpler society actually becomes more complex as the regional population increases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the time of his arrival, much of the original Native American population of hunter-gatherers was still living there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He used these to calculate life expectancies for each age group, and to estimate the population of London, which he concluded was 460,000—not, as had been claimed, 7 million or so. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I’d thought that maybe since population growth had been so fast, there were more people alive than all the dead combined. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z As the Justice Policy Institute has observed, “the Clinton Administration’s ‘tough on crime’ policies resulted in the largest increases in federal and state inmate populations of any president in American history.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I found myself staring at a plate of food I had no desire to eat as the entire mountain population celebrated around us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The original range of the bird coincided with the range of the sage, and as the sagelands have been reduced, so the populations of grouse have dwindled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I thank the civil population for their steadfastness and courage in the face of overwhelming odds and starvation. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Were mutations sudden and spontaneous, or were abundant natural genetic variations already present in wild populations? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z One resident recalled how immediately after the fire “there was such a rush for homes in Englewood and the population increased so rapidly that it was impossible to keep up with it.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Muralug Island itself, the island nearest Australia, was dry, marginal for agriculture, and supported only a small human population, which subsisted mainly on seafood, wild yams, and mangrove fruits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z To feed Norte Chico’s burgeoning population, Shady discovered, the valley folk learned how to irrigate the soil. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Indigenous peoples sustained their populations not only by adapting to their specific natural environments but also by changing their environments to meet their needs. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z A recent review of the subject contained references to 215 papers reporting or discussing unfavorable upsets in the balance of insect populations caused by pesticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Let us now summarize how variations in these three factors—time of onset of food production, barriers to diffusion, and human population size—led straightforwardly to the observed intercontinental differences in the development of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z However difficult life may have been for the early miners, by the second half of the twentieth century Centralia was a reasonably prosperous, snug, hardworking town with a population approaching 2,000. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z During the eighteen years of his reign, the city acquired diplomatic stature and commercial clout; its population grew to perhaps ten thousand and it established trade contacts throughout Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z About 1933, however, it was accidentally introduced into Florida, where the climate allowed it to survive over winter and to establish populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Then he narrowed the search to towns with populations under ten thousand that were also on the banks of rivers. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Permanent, year-round populations could be established only in the presence of an anticipatory engineering of water supplies.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Since the Indianapolis experiment was disbanded, which was about eight years ago. I could have integrated into the greater population, outside the experiments, but that felt too overwhelming.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The populations of Iceland and Norway themselves were too small and too poor for them to continue their support of the Greenland Norse population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Human populations of only a few hundred people were unable to survive indefinitely in complete isolation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By their labor the slave populations allow the tempo of continuous warfare to be speeded up. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z If the rise of farming was thus a bonanza for our microbes, the rise of cities was a greater one, as still more densely packed human populations festered under even worse sanitation conditions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Great War had whipped a starving, weary population into a murderous frenzy of discontent. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When the time for swarming comes, and the old queen prepares to leave with her part of the population, it is as though the hive were involved in mitosis. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z You couldn’t call it a biker bar anymore, even though that’s how it had gotten its start and there was certainly that population in the room most nights. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Under the stress of intensive chemical spraying the weaker members of the insect populations are being weeded out. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As the city’s population swelled, demand for apartments turned into “flat fever.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That is, population growth leads to societal complexity, by mechanisms that we shall discuss, while societal complexity in turn leads to intensified food production and thereby to population growth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The general public seems to imagine that our prisons are filled with “rapists and murderers,” but they actually account for a small minority of our nation’s prison population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Such exchanges in the Andes, Alps, and Himalayas not only increased population densities in those areas, by providing people at all altitudes with a more balanced diet, but also promoted regional economic and political integration. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He was honest about it with the guys, and they accepted him because of it, plus he never acted or talked like the stereotypical gay guys that people think are caricatures of the entire population. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z You may be shocked by their youth, yet they are typical of the small army of young men that make up a major proportion of the population of our prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s been estimated that, because of the exponential growth of the world’s population, between 10 and 20 percent of all the human beings who have ever lived are alive now. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Young African American men were the only group to experience a steep increase in joblessness between 1980 and 2000, a development directly traceable to the increase in the penal population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z At this point, we simply take stock of the means by which the War on Drugs facilitates the roundup and lockdown of an extraordinary percentage of the U.S. population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The government classified and, to a considerable extent, segregated the entire North Korean population based on the perceived reliability of an individual’s parents and grandparents. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Whether Sapiens are to blame or not, no sooner had they arrived at a new location than the native population became extinct. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z All of its predators had been killed off and there had not been time for new populations to become established. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z What usually results is a poisoned environment, a lethal trap in which not only the resident populations succumb but those who come in as migrants as well. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z At one time the deer population was in equilibrium with its environment. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z With their fields disappearing beneath their feet and a growing population to feed, Maya farmers were forced to exploit ever more marginal terrain with ever more intensity. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ninety percent of Poland’s population was Catholic and ten percent was Jewish. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s just that I thought I had the scoop on this bird population, you know? I really wanted this book to be something special.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I've never considered myself an across-the-board apologist for the French, but there's a lot to be said for an entire population that never, under any circumstances, talks during the picture. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z To these natural population controls were added cultural mechanisms. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But overall, the teenage share of the population wasn’t getting much bigger. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Because BHS is a giant school with a giant population of students, I don’t see Violet as often as you might think. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z From my room, the student population seemed manageable, but it overwhelmed me in the classroom area, which was a single, long building just beyond the dorm circle. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z A recent influx of Hungarian Jews into our neighborhood had swelled their ranks, and they formed a small but highly vocal element of the school’s student population. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z In general, then, there was a direct and nearly perfect correlation between demography and ideology—that is, between the ratio of blacks to whites in the population and the reluctance to consider abolition. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the case of the national university, it was the recognition that the United States was still very much a nation in the making because its population was still a people in the making. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Already a big city, The Hague’s population is exploding. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Even prisons—the actual buildings—are a rare sight for many Americans, as they are often located far from population centers. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The fact to keep in mind is that in the 1950s “blacks” made up about 80 percent of the Jamaican population, outnumbering coloreds five to one. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As the millennium approached, the American Bottom had a resident population of several thousand. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The resulting fixed abode contributes to denser human populations by permitting a shortened birth interval. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After sixth-period lunch is over, the entire school population empties into the football stadium. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z In the years between the beginning and the middle of the 1990s, New York City did not get a population transplant. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality, Jews numbered about 523,000 out of a population of 67 million people in Germany, less than 1 percent. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The whole population of the neighborhood turned out for a long, trailing funeral which went on for hours and was in effect an indignation meeting. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z It would be tragic to lose the elms, but it would be doubly tragic if, in vain efforts to save them, we plunge vast segments of our bird populations into the night of extinction. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z No one imagined that the prison population would more than quintuple in their lifetime. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Immigrants were encouraged to acculturate as quickly as they could—meaning that they must learn a new language, giving up traditions, customs, heritage, etc., in order to blend and assimilate into the general population. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The Sapiens population was thinly spread over vast territories. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Five centuries later the wholesale reshuffling of populations became an infamous trademark of Stalin and Mao. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the former region the indigenous population mostly kept the invaders out. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There are certainly plenty of reasons to dislike the huge surge in the prison population. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Not long ago archaeologists with new techniques unraveled the tragedy of Cahokia, near modern St. Louis, which was once the greatest population center north of the Rio Grande. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The revolts were quashed, but the immensity of the colored population remained. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Things happened along this street all the time—sometimes very bad things—that went unnoticed by the authorities and the rest of the population. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In addition, Australia’s aridity, infertility, and climatic unpredictability limited its hunter-gatherer population to only a few hundred thousand people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Constant tribal warfare could have reduced the population. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It seemed that the vims could adapt quickly to new hosts, and that it could change its character spontaneously and rapidly as it entered a new population. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, the only adult males in the whole of Berlin’s population exempt from defensive duties during its apocalyptic fall to the Red Army in April-May 1945 were the members of the Berlin Philharmonic. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The population under correctional control—on probation or parole—has tripled as well, an increase driven almost entirely by drug convictions and other nonviolent crimes. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Not to his surprise, he discovered that overall Indians have fewer HLA types than populations from Europe, Asia, and Africa. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If the conditions change, different types of individuals may now survive or reproduce better and become “naturally selected,” with the result that the population undergoes evolutionary change. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As the population expanded, Malthus reasoned, its resource pool would be depleted, and competition between individuals would grow severe. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Its population, drawn from all African language groups, was well adapted to city life and politically conscious. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the edges of town, ancient-looking cottages stood abandoned and roofless, evidence of a shrinking population, children lured away from centuries-old fishing and farming traditions by more glamorous opportunities elsewhere. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z In his view, “the ban on gruesome fairy tales, terrifying nursemaids and other standard sources of horror, has left most of the population” vulnerable to scary stories and situations. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I shuffled my feet toward the door as the population of the aircraft methodically decreased; my colleagues, I realized, were all now flying through the air beneath me. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They were the ones we could evolve and sustain through the early millions of years of our evolutionary history, when the total human population was tiny and fragmented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But the largest buildings in the town were the factories, which employed a large percentage of the population. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Smaller stores were built around the town for the convenience of the population. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z What if they had wandered away and were now lost in the city, with its busy, dangerous streets and large, succulent population of pigeons? The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The displaced populations moved as the dust moved. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The number of small farms merged into collectives was a number about equal to the current population of Texas. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The entire population, except those needed for essential jobs, is required to attend. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z A population of 4,000 was able to survive for 10,000 years, but with significant cultural losses and significant failures to invent, leaving it with a uniquely simplified material culture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Nature likes things in balance. My pa taught me that. Maybe the screechers kept the snail population in check.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z When such partly immune people came into contact with others who had had no previous exposure to the germs, epidemics resulted in which up to 99 percent of the previously unexposed population was killed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Any incipient farmers in Aboriginal Australia would have faced similar cycles in their own populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Foragers today live mainly in isolated and inhospitable areas such as the Arctic or the Kalahari, where population density is very low and opportunities to fight other people are limited. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was decided that people needed to die in order to ease the tide of population growth, it was also decided that this must be the responsibility of humans. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z They did this because life in those places, even though they were surrounded by bugs, was more tolerable than among the general population of a max. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Evacuations like this cause panic in the civil population.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Except in the towns there was evidence of a population which had once lived here and farmed and had its being and had then been driven out. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z But a civilization with a low population growth rate will take a long time to colonize many worlds, even if the strictures on rapid population growth are eased after reaching some lush Eden. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Although roll call was held each morning, the daily death toll from typhus and starvation was quickly reducing the prisoner population. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Thereafter, Tasmania’s population of 4,000 hunter-gatherers remained out of contact with all other humans on Earth, living in an isolation otherwise known only from science fiction novels. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Vietnam War, however, had taken some young Americans out of the workforce, and the school-age population was still booming, so teachers were needed. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z But the correlations do not tell us precisely how population variables function in a chain of cause and effect whose outcome is a complex society. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, food production, which increases population size, also acts in many ways to make features of complex societies possible. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This is a long-debated chicken-or-egg problem: did a rise in human population density force people to turn to food production, or did food production permit a rise in human population density? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While 80 percent of Japan’s land area consists of mountains unsuitable for agriculture and only 14 percent is farmland, per square mile of that farmland Japan supports a population density eight times that of Britain’s. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “But no one looked at the effects of these new species intermingling with native populations? That’s the danger, isn’t it?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z A political unit’s population size interacted with its population density to influence Polynesian technology and economic, social, and political organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And it means that sometimes a whole population of frogs, or worms, or people, can die for no reason whatsoever, just because that is the way the numbers work. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z To put that number into perspective, if we took that new 2.4 percent figure and applied it to today’s population of 313.3 million, the result would be about 7.5 million soldiers and sailors killed. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Honestly, I’m amazed that in the end, despite everything, we were able to collect such a large population of kids that just never gave up. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “The Government was scared we'd all run out of food if the population kept growing. That's why they made you and me illegal, to keep people from starving.” Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Both involved quarantines—the practice of isolating someone with a highly infectious disease from the healthy population. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z And as Howard Jones once wrote, “Hopkins, with its large indigent black population, had no dearth of clinical material.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Or are large populations and complex societies instead the cause, somehow leading to intensification of food production? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thus, within a modest time span, enormously diverse island environments were settled by colonists all of whom stemmed from the same founding population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When the Richardson curve crosses the vertical bar we have specified the waiting time to Doomsday: how many years until the population of the Earth is destroyed in some great war. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She says, “Our growing population means we will need to grow the schools, too.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Dobyns’s population projections were quickly seen by some as politically motivated—self-flagellation by guilty white liberals or, worse, a push to inflate the toll of imperialism from the hate-America crowd. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In July, Clement had presented the Durham Chamber of Commerce with a list of eighty-eight demands, covering nearly every area that concerned the city’s black population—including the formation of a Human Relations Commission. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Pressure on the pest population should always be as slight as possible.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Indeed, it occurs so infrequently and involves such a relatively small number of species, considering the huge population of bacteria on the earth, that it has a freakish aspect. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Riding in the Mazda sets us apart from the rest of the population. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We have seen that large or dense populations arise only under conditions of food production, or at least under exceptionally productive conditions for hunting-gathering. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Other researchers believe this population estimate is too high. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nurse Mayinga seemed to be a vector for an explosive chain of lethal transmission in a crowded third-world city with a population of two million people. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The population of these towns was twenty-two times that of Midland. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Larger populations mean more inventors and more competing societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The event, it is thought, may have carried humans right to the brink of extinction, reducing the global population to no more than a few thousand individuals. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z And this was a small town in every conceivable way—size, population, culture. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z That’s bigger than the Olympics and more than the population of Springfield. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Very early on, the colonizers recognized that smallpox could easily wipe out an Indigenous population, leaving land available for settlement. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “And the strongest memory that came was hunger. It came from many generations back. Centuries back. The population had gotten so big that hunger was everywhere. Excruciating hunger and starvation. It was followed by warfare.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Some farming populations make it even easier for their own fecal bacteria and worms to infect new victims, by gathering their feces and urine and spreading them as fertilizer on the fields where people work. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Located twenty-five miles down a winding road from Charlotte, Monroe, population seven thousand, was typical small-town South. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Even more striking, in the general American population, 3.9 percent of adult men are six foot two or taller. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The Moriori were a small, isolated population of hunter-gatherers, equipped with only the simplest technology and weapons, entirely inexperienced at war, and lacking strong leadership or organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The North Korean government had been forced—by catastrophic famine in the mid-1990s and the importance of Chinese foodstuffs in feeding the population—to tolerate a porous border with China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Those advocating emancipation, then, need to confront the intractable dilemma posed by the sheer size of an African population that, once freed, must be removed to some other location. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Marines invaded where there was still a population of Japanese civilians, including many women and children. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, woodpeckers are the primary control of the Engelmann spruce beetle, reducing its populations from 45 to 98 per cent and are important in the control of the codling moth in apple orchards. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The highest population densities of Aborigines were in Australia’s wettest and most productive regions: the Murray-Darling river system of the Southeast, the eastern and northern coasts, and the southwestern corner. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Anuta’s population density exceeded that of modern Holland and even rivaled that of Bangladesh. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Look sister, we know the facts: you spent the first twenty-one years of your life in the lynching country, in a county whose population is two-thirds agricultural Negro. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “More like a hundred thousand,” which was close to the population of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Illegal to keep them in Maryland—you know, an effort to help boost the crab population. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t say waiting for us. Anyway, I have to read about the effects of smallpox on indigenous populations tonight, so I can’t really solve The Case of the Fugitive Billionaire.” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z That contrasts sharply with the situation in Australia, the Americas, and South Africa, where European settlement was numerous and lasting and replaced the original native population over large areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, New Guineans have been living in societies where human numbers were too low for epidemic diseases of dense populations to evolve. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A Chilean scientist has pointed out that malaria-carrying mosquitoes persist in his country in spite of insecticide treatment; the release of sterile males might then provide the final blow needed to eliminate this population. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z During the first hundred years after the English arrived in 1607, over 90 percent of Virginia’s native population was killed either in warfare and massacres or by the new diseases the Europeans brought with them. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Aids had already fallen like a shadow over the population, although no one yet knew it existed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The population most affected by this misguided law is formerly incarcerated women with children, most of whom were imprisoned for drug crimes. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Throughout its history, however, the country’s majority population has struggled with how to accept different cultures and cultural perspectives of different minority populations. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z This program of “male annihilation” was begun in i960: a year later the Agriculture Department estimated that more than 99 per cent of the population had been eliminated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Among animals, too, epidemic diseases require large, dense populations and don’t afflict just any animal: they’re confined mainly to social animals providing the necessary large populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Galápagos-in-a-carton experiment had demonstrated how a population of interbreeding organisms—flies, say—evolves over time.* The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z In many towns, virtually the whole male population was mustered for the fight. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z African Americans made up 56 percent of the inmate population, Hispanics comprised another 32 percent, and whites around 10 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the population, some 170,000 people, were enslaved workers, many of whom had been born in Africa and only recently sold into slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Before Cahokia's rise, people were slowly hunting the local deer and bison populations to extinction. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One of the problems of sterilization by radiation is that this requires not only artificial rearing but the release of sterile males in larger number than are present in the wild population. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z After a few generations, instead of a mixed population of strong and weak insects, there results a population consisting entirely of tough, resistant strains. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z As the population of the ghetto continued to diminish, officials began to reorganize those of us remaining. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z A population’s inherent inclination to expand would be severely counterbalanced by the limitations of resources; its natural wont met by natural want. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z A quarter to a third of the adult urban population is engaged fulltime in the nurture and education of the children. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the Indian population of Hispaniola declined from around 8 million, when Columbus arrived in A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z With the rise of dense, sedentary, food-producing populations came the rise of chiefs, kings, and bureaucrats. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were stories in the paper of German parachutists disguised as nurses and nuns, spreading out through the cities and infiltrating the population. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Like The Hague, Brussels is a big city, its population exploding, too. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “We would also help to end the population explosion.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Two-thirds of the human population today is telling the one-third minority white man, “Get out!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Those areas also came to support the densest populations of European settlers in modern Australia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The fourth and last set of factors consists of continental differences in area or total population size. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Its population had grown to 300,000 citizens made up of different groups. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z The ultimate ancestors of all modern Polynesian populations shared essentially the same culture, language, technology, and set of domesticated plants and animals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As new flies had been born, selected, and bred, the gene frequencies had changed, resulting in populations with new genetic compositions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Yes. I suppose. Ten percent of the island’s Caucasian male population. It—” “And isn’t the percentage even higher, doctor, for males of Japanese descent? A higher percentage of B positives among the island’s Japanese-Americans?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The disease exists anywhere there are monkey populations, as does the pesticide-resistant mosquito that can transport the disease to humans. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I followed, when I could, the courses of the rivers; but the dæmon generally avoided these, as it was here that the population of the country chiefly collected. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout human history, centralized states with metal weapons and armies supported by dense agricultural populations have swept away sparser populations of stone-tool-using hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It is a hypermutant, a shape shifter, spontaneously altering its character as it moves through populations and through individuals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Iceland’s climate permitted herding and extremely limited agriculture, and its area was sufficient to support a Norse-derived population that has persisted to this day. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Since survival in the snowy forests of northern Europe required different traits than those needed to stay alive in Indonesia’s steaming jungles, human populations evolved in different directions. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z More than ninety percent of the district’s population is dead. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z And then surely the civilian population will be evacuated . Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, it’s far more cosmopolitan, for one thing. And it’s got a strong Catholic population,” he said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When later there is a resurgence of the insect population, as almost always happens, the birds are not there to keep their numbers in check. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z White rural communities that house prisons wind up with more people in state legislatures representing them, while poor communities of color lose representatives because it appears their population has declined. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The day I married, the whole population of Ojo de Agua turned out to wish me well. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The summer population must be large and the roads and highways gorged with refugees from the sticky heat of Boston and New York. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Having both, we were bound to grow, but Grandpa said he didn’t see how the population could change any. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z For instance, in 1519 Cortes landed on the coast of Mexico with 600 Spaniards, to conquer the fiercely militaristic Aztec Empire with a population of many millions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z First, it would put familiar leaders in charge of established populations. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Throughout Europe, Hitler was beginning his murderous holocaust of Jewish people and other ethnic groups—he wanted to wipe out the entire population of Poland to clear the land for German citizens. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It houses some 684 inmates, more than the entire population of many prisons. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Feebleminded women were sent to the Virginia State Colony for confinement to ensure that they would not continue breeding and thereby contaminate the population with further morons or idiots. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Along with destroying breeding areas, adult mosquito populations were also attacked with the widespread use of the pesticide dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, better known as DDT, much of it sprayed from planes. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z By 1945, milky spore disease was raging among the beetle populations of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Wherever the black population reached a threshold level, slavery remained the preferred means of assuring the segregation of the races. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The first one received many media citations: aging of the population. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Hence, all other things being equal, technology develops fastest in large productive regions with large human populations, many potential inventors, and many competing societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Before the Russian Revolution, about 80 percent of the population were peasants who worked in the fields like their medieval ancestors. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “They don’t want to hear about pain. They just seek the advice. I simply advised them against increasing the population.” The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Seventy percent of all eastern bird species have seen population declines since the 1960s. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z These considerations, along with the just mentioned correlation between regional population size and societal complexity, have led to a protracted chicken-or-egg debate about the causal relations between food production, population variables, and societal complexity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But that it also concerns itself with unfair treatment of England’s medieval Jewish population would have ruled it out for the arch anti-Semite Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And they didn’t even read; depressed populations don’t have the time or energy to spare. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z As these larger factors dominated the thoughts and energy of the population of the North End—and the rest of America—the molasses tank continued to leak. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Where population densities are high, as in regions occupied by states or chiefdoms, the defeated still have nowhere to flee, but the victors now have two options for exploiting them while leaving them alive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In five days the populations of orangutans, zebras, hyenas, rats, flies and cockroaches had been wiped out. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z As an adjunct to this increase in traffic, the population at the highway rest areas virtually exploded. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z For the population as a whole, we must be more concerned with the delayed effects of absorbing small amounts of the pesticides that invisibly contaminate our world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her world had a population of four: herself and her three gaolers, pious and unyielding. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The gradual emancipation schemes adopted in the northern states never needed to face this question squarely, because the black population there remained relatively small. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He told them that he wanted the Sudetenland, the western portion of Czechoslovakia where another large ethnic German population lived. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z I think this is a fact, which it serves no purpose to deny, but, whether it is a fact or not, this is what the black population of the world, including black Americans, really believe. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z “Most importantly, almost everyone all over the world had these lesions. If they were a health hazard, ninety-nine percent of the population would show some kind of symptoms.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Flocks of finches fed on fruit until their population exploded. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Imagine, if you will, the sudden descent of democracy on an unprepared population. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Consider, too, the Dobynsesque procedure for recovering original population numbers: applying an assumed death rate, usually 95 percent, to the observed population nadir. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Jack knew they were Jews, but he had not realized that many towns and villages had large Jewish populations. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z New York and New Jersey, which contained the largest slave populations north of the Chesapeake, proved more recalcitrant for that very reason. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “It predicted what might happen to the seal population off Cape Cod after the Marine Mammal Protection Act became law. Back then, seals had been my focus.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z In the 1930s, Theodosius Dobzhansky, a Ukrainian biologist who had emigrated to the United States, set out to describe the extent of genetic variation in wild populations. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Wait. You really want to erase the memories of a whole population against their will? That’s the same thing they’re planning to do to our friends and family.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z This was their main purpose, it appeared: to find a way to manage the inmates such that, with daily meds, they could return to the general population. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Briefly, at high population densities only a portion of the people came to be farmers, but they were mobilized to devote themselves to intensive food production, thereby yielding surpluses to feed nonproducers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For example, the Spanish conquistadores wished to exact tribute from Mexico’s defeated native populations, so they were very interested in the Aztec Empire’s tribute lists. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many of the forms of discrimination that relegated African Americans to an inferior caste during Jim Crow continue to apply to huge segments of the black population today—provided they are first labeled felons. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z In other words, Pena might be able to find ancient American DNA hidden in Brazil’s European population. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In this particular rural Southern community, the population was about 27 percent black, but African Americans made up only 10 percent of the jury pool. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z He kept forgetting that the entire population of the city would be with him on the trip. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As Ethyne and Mae moved through the square toward the Tower, the population of the Protectorate walked around with their hands shading their eyes. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z A distinguished British student of animal populations, Dr. Charles Elton, has said, “We are hearing the early rumblings of what may become an avalanche in strength.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Without these nursery areas of warm, protected, food- rich waters the populations of these and many other species could not be maintained. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z More than a third of the population had fled. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Any national plan for gradual emancipation needed to transform this racial demography by relocating at least a significant portion of that population elsewhere. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There is no way to tell what percentage of the population dreams such dreams of sexual transmogrification. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In America, farmers have repeatedly traded one insect enemy for a worse one as spraying upsets the population dynamics of the insect world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z In parts of Central America and the Andes, the Native Americans were originally so numerous that, even after epidemics and wars, much of the population today remains Native American or mixed. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And I judge the effectiveness of that job not so much by obedience to rule, for rules can be enforced, but by the humor of the general prison population. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of the war, of Kraków's prewar Jewish population of about 60,000, only a few thousand remained. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z The men studied medicine, law, theology, and emerged repeatedly in the powerless government offices available to the native population. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The first was the enormous increase in population. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it possible that not only the doctors but everyone who ministered to the colored population was involved in this incredible scheme? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Teaching the surgery to local doctors and offering its gift to the colored population was part of the reason he was hired. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The “one path” Washington identified required the Indians to recognize that contesting the expansion of the white population was suicidal. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “Living in a small town like ours, it’s hard to imagine that many people. Even Denver’s population is only a fraction of that.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z When the incarcerated population is counted in unemployment and poverty rates, the best of times for the rest of America have been among the worst of times for African Americans, particularly black men. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Our family had begun to dwindle, along with the entire camp population. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z One possible contributing factor is that the rise of dense human populations began somewhat later in the New World than in the Old World. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And partly because population growth burned humanity’s boats. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z But his studies on wild populations, variation, and natural selection had already provided crucial insights to these questions. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The 1999 drug bust incarcerated almost 15 percent of the black population of the town, based on the uncorroborated false testimony of a single informant hired by the sheriff of Tulia. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z American Muslims are a diverse and growing population with a thriving social and cultural scene catering to their unique needs. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z That’s not to say, though, that small human populations are free from all infectious diseases. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was the one Region whose population increase through immigration exceeded that through births.—And for all who came it had use. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z These correlations suggest strongly that regional population size or population density or population pressure has something to do with the formation of complex societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z People fled for East Baltimore or back to the country, and the population of Turner Station dropped by half before the end of the fifties. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As we saw in previous chapters, that evidence is important because food production led to high population densities, germs, technology, political organization, and other ingredients of power. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Advocates of pre-Clovis settlement suggest that, for thousands or even tens of thousands of years, pre-Clovis humans remained at low population densities or poorly visible archaeologically, for unknown reasons unprecedented elsewhere in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That fate befell African pygmies and many other hunter-gatherer populations displaced by farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Not least, the Americas were more fragmented by areas unsuitable for food production or for dense human populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If Minya had gotten Skathis’s power, she wondered, would she be any different from him, or would she willingly subjugate a whole population, and justify it all within the rigid parameters of justice. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Thus, when the human population became sufficiently large and concentrated, we reached the stage in our history at which we could at last evolve and sustain crowd diseases confined to our own species. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The intriguing question is whether Washington could project an American future after slavery that included the African-American population as prospective members of the American citizenry. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The population of Tally’s dorm had been steadily dropping for the last year as seniors turned sixteen. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z A fourth factor was the two-way link between the rise in human population density and the rise in food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “It is possible to say unequivocally,” he stated, “that nuclear weapons tests carried out at the present time do not constitute a health hazard to the human population.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Scientists attribute the significantly larger population in the Americas to a relatively disease-free society whose use of herbal medicine, surgery, dentistry, and hygienic and ritual bathing kept disease at bay. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “I gather that a good number of their population are insane, sir. That seems to be their main reason for doubting.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Some teachers ascribed the drop in academic performance to the effects of court-ordered desegregation as well as a rapid increase in the town’s Hispanic population. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On any planet, no matter what its biology or social system, an exponential increase in population will swallow every resource. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The ratio of population growth to the Thunderhead’s ability to provide for humanity requires that a certain number of people be gleaned each year,” he told them. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z As a result, Dobyns said, all colonial population estimates were too low. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Other population centers of states outside the capital may also qualify as true cities, which are lacking in chiefdoms. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The effect on the bird populations could easily have been foretold. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On many study areas aquatic insects and other stream-bottom fauna were reduced to a tenth of their normal populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z No one had forgotten how in 1885 fouled water had ignited an outbreak of cholera and typhoid that killed ten percent of the city’s population. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Could it be that a population of teenagers, almost all of them male, were inspired to develop their own music as a way to speak, to compete, to announce who they were to the world? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z One survivor said that ten percent of the city’s population died, while another estimated that ten percent had fled the city in search of food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But this synthesis is apparent in many other aspects of the culture, too, as would be expected in a place where as much as three-quarters of the population claims some Indian descent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “To make a series of what we call propos—which is short for ‘propaganda spots’ — featuring you, and broadcast them to the entire population of Panem.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Soon our camp population is reduced to forty girls, ranging in age from ten to thirteen. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All these effects that continental differences in area, population, ease of diffusion, and onset of food production exerted on the rise of technology became exaggerated, because technology catalyzes itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I was studying a population chart when Dora appeared in the aisle. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Thanks to President Roosevelt’s Rural Electrification Administration, begun in 1936, electricity came to the quarter of the population that lived on farmlands. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z So Luke read cautiously, always ready to shove his population book under his pillow and replace it with one of his adventure books. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Kill them off and the population of the prey insect surges upward. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Whatever they are called, the Musket/Potato Wars proved very destructive, killing about one-quarter of the original Maori population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, too, part of the reason for states’ triumphs over simpler entities when the two collide is that states usually enjoy an advantage of weaponry and other technology, and a large numerical advantage in population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the car, Shin guessed that he and his father would be released back into the camp’s population. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The rise of food production in China spawned several great prehistoric movements of human populations, or of cultural traits, or of both. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1960, the Hispanic population of the county had been about 6 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That population growth also proves unsurprising when one stops to consider the actual numbers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The black population of Odessa was quite small—about 5 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition, the Chathams are relatively small and remote islands, capable of supporting a total population of only about 2,000 hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Historical records show that frontier populations can increase at astonishing rates; in the early nineteenth century, the annual U.S. birthrate climbed as high as 5 percent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Scalp hunting and enslaving captives were profitable and aided the colonizers’ efforts to intimidate or eradicate the Indigenous population. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “You always hear white people trying to minimize the size of the aboriginal populations their ancestors personally displaced,” according to Lenore Stiffarm, an ethnologist at the University of Saskatchewan. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Until then, it had supported the most distinctive human societies, and the least numerous human population, of any continent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One was that it had to do with the large population of Christians in the state. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Traveling with the Red Army to the front, Grossman saw the panicked population as people left their homes and tried to escape the German army. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If recent reappraisals of the pre-Columbian New World population are correct, it was not far below the contemporary population of Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “So are you excited to be a representative for a minority population?” Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z When viruses come out of an ecosystem, they tend to spread in waves through the human population, like echoes from the dying biosphere. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “There were far more factionless than we ever anticipated. It’s difficult to get an accurate population count on a scattered population, after all.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Currently there are approximately five million people gleaned per year worldwide—a tiny fraction of the death rate in the Age of Mortality, and nowhere near enough to balance population growth. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Now you are relearning. You are learning honesty. I’m sorry to punish you, Matty, but Village is a population of honest and decent people, and I want you to be one of us.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z All those are direct ways in which plant and animal domestication led to denser human populations by yielding more food than did the hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z As Englewood gained population, Holmes’s sales of tonics and lotions increased. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Austronesians enjoyed few advantages in competing with those established New Guinean populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Large societies of food producers have not only more members but also higher population densities than do small bands of hunter-gatherers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After the weather got violent and the islands were battered, the West Indian population here had swollen. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Out of an original population, the members of which vary greatly in qualities of structure, behavior, or physiology, it is the “tough” insects that survive chemical attack. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z If there is more population growth than the food supply can accommodate, something must and will happen to reduce the population. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Between 1920 and 1940, the population of southern California nearly tripled, as about 2 million people arrived from across the United States. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z “The king was overjoyed. ‘They have been sent to crown my old age,’ he cried, and called the queen, his ministers, the palace staff, and, indeed, the entire population to see them. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z They waited until the Pacific populations were stable before legally asking for permission to resume this ancient tradition. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In area, it was far the smallest; not one fifth the size of the Tropic Region in area, and not one fifth the size of the Eastern Region in population. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Like the United States, Brazil had a population of different Indian tribes native to the land. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “What has been proposed is that in lieu of eliminating the entire Capitol population, we have a final, symbolic Hunger Games, using the children directly related to those who held the most power.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The maize-fed population boom, Crosby believes, let the awful trade continue without pumping the well dry. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The result was a small, unwarlike population with simple technology and weapons, and without strong leadership or organization. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It turned out that 1–4 per cent of the unique human DNA of modern populations in the Middle East and Europe is Neanderthal DNA. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z African American boys made up less than 30 percent of Oakland’s underage population but accounted for nearly 75 percent of all juvenile arrests. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z All of these capabilities of centralized societies have fostered intensified food production and hence population growth throughout history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The nation’s prison population broke new records in 2008, with no end in sight. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He would read about the housing shortage all along the west coast, brought on by wartime population growth, and he would throw the paper down in disgust. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Because most new prison construction occurs in predominately white, rural areas, these communities benefit from inflated population totals at the expense of the urban, overwhelmingly minority communities from which people in prison frequently come. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Population growth is still off the charts, but it’s balanced by the Thunderhead’s ability to provide for an ever-increasing population. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Television is like a strain of the common cold that can spread like lightning through a population, but only causes a few sniffles and is gone in a day. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Directly and indirectly nearly one-fifth of Chicago’s population depended on the yards for its economic survival. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z A few years after I graduated, a second high school in the district closed, and its student population was subsumed into Wilson. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Dismissing the impact of disease, in her view, is simply a way to reduce the original population of the Americas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Another bonanza was the development of world trade routes, which by Roman times effectively joined the populations of Europe, Asia, and North Africa into one giant breeding ground for microbes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tony noticed that Mexicans, who make up the fastest growing immigrant population, have been far less successful at moving up from the bottom than many earlier immigrant waves. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Census figures put the black population, among Levittown’s fifty-four thousand residents, at 2 percent. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In the United States, with a population of two hundred and seventy-five million, that comes to one hundred and thirty-seven thousand intersexuals alive today. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The countries were arranged by continent, six to a page, with the capitals in boldface, followed by a short entry on the population, government, and other statistics. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z A gradual rise in population densities impelled people to obtain more food, by rewarding those who unconsciously took steps toward producing it. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Scalping, attacks on women and children or threatening to attack them, and the use of biological weapons such as smallpox were irregular warfare strategies employed against Indigenous civilian populations. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In less than thirty years, the U.S. penal population exploded from around 300,000 to more than 2 million, with drug convictions accounting for the majority of the increase. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Where did they come from? You know, the population explosion?” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Gene felt that if the team did its job properly, the human population of Washington would be safe. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The growing exposure of the population to radiation from various sources, plus the many contacts with a host of chemicals suggest a grave new problem for the modern world. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Twenty-two percent of the world’s population sees ghosts,” I tell him via the wall. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Its rural population is still overwhelmingly New Guinean, but its urban population is Indonesian, as a result of government policy aimed at encouraging Indonesian immigration. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When Mr. Mehner began work for the doctorate in 1954, he chose a research project that had to do with robin populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Though it will make survival possible for only a select portion of our population, unless we take extreme measures, we face the eventual extinction of the human race. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Of the five African groups, representatives of many populations of blacks and whites are familiar to Americans and Europeans and need no physical description. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our comparison begins with food production, a major determinant of local population size and societal complexity—hence an ultimate factor behind the conquest. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Innuit are an aboriginal people historically mistreated by a white settler population; there were parallels between the plights of black South Africans and the Innuit people. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “It never could have supported a large population.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When and where to build roads; how to eliminate waste in food distribution and thus end hunger; how to protect the environment from the ever-growing human population. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The nonprofit Pew Charitable Trusts reports that prison populations in at least ten states are expected to increase by 25 percent or more between 2006 and 2011. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The population is suddenly split into two by some sort of geographical rift. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Whatever happens, don’t go outside! The best thing to do is to stay put! The Germans are capable of herding the entire population of Holland into Germany, where they’ll all die.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z It’s working—the amount needed to kill fifty percent of the population is increasing, meaning it’s becoming less effective. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The makeshift 24th MEU base is a sort of Fort Apache, in the middle of a pretty hostile Iraqi Sunni Muslim population. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z By the end of 1919, so many black families had fled that the area’s black population had dropped from eleven hundred to thirty. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The avian throngs Audubon saw were “outbreak populations—always a symptom of an extraordinarily disrupted ecological system.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In these four areas the onset of food production provides little or no evidence for the domestication of local plant or animal species, but also little or no evidence for the replacement of human population. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I teased, after a giant rat charged past us outside her dorm—and its student population, twice the size of Princeton’s, was almost entirely black. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z We know, too, that the antimosquito breeding campaigns in Cuba and Panama were very effective in halting the infections and that massive insecticide campaigns can control the populations of Aedes aegypti. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The natural resources of the area were enough to support its human population. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z After all, obtaining reform through the city council or state legislature may seem unlikely, for black “criminals” are perhaps the most despised minority in the U.S. population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Not all, of course, are suitable subjects for this technique, much depending on details of the life history, population density, and reactions to radiation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A full 60 percent of Africa’s population at the time was under the age of twenty-five. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Take an imaginary situation in which a population of a million insects is multiplying five times in each generation. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “The newsfeeds are reporting that every single avatar in the sector was just killed. Over half the population of the OASIS.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The gray seal population off Cape Cod had shrunk because they had been hunted for their meat, oil, and skins. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z If the adoption of ploughing increased a village’s population from a hundred to 110, which ten people would have volunteered to starve so that the others could go back to the good old times? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In every single American slave state, the population of enslaved people kept rising even after the slave trade was abolished. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The tragedy opens with a scene showing a rich and varied population of large animals, without any trace of humans. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, I had been reading about the population explosion on the West Coast, but for West Coast most people substitute California. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Middle-class whites moved in, and over time the population of Clarkston more than doubled. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z It was frighteningly obvious now, with the population gathered, that something terrible was happening. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z To trace out that chain, let us now remind ourselves how large dense populations themselves arise. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There, they quickly called Indigenous populations “children of Satan” and “servants of the devil.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Fortunately for us such an extreme situation is only theoretical, but the dire results of upsetting nature’s own arrangements are well known to students of animal populations. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z But this picture would wildly distort your understanding of the population that had been sentenced to prison during the past ten years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Conversely, any civilization that engages in serious interstellar exploration and colonization must have exercised zero population growth or something very close to it for many generations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Drug offenses alone account for two-thirds of the rise in the federal prison population and more than half the rise in the state prison population between 1985 and 2000. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Others are complete strangers, reminding me that the factionless population is larger than any of us suspected. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He flew on to London, and reporters of the British Broadcasting Corporation took him on an interviewing tour in Smethwick, a town near Birmingham with a large colored population. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Townspeople told Jack how the Nazis had deported most of the Jewish population, loading them into boxcars, never to be heard from again. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z At Albuquerque, even the reservation population turned out. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Criminologists point to the decline of the crack trade and the aging of the population. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z One side proposes that Monte Alban formed because maize agriculture allowed the Oaxaca Valley’s population to grow so much that the rural villages naturally clustered into something resembling cities. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When the storm passed and the sun came out, Chup set out over the valley, not to hunt, not to check on populations of doves and ducks, but simply to fly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Some of Greenberg’s subfamilies, and some groupings recognized by more-traditional linguists, may turn out to be legacies of New World population expansions driven in part by food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Whereas chiefdoms’ populations range from a few thousand to a few tens of thousands, the populations of most modern states exceed one million, and China’s exceeds one billion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Cats in the wild do so much destruction to the bird population. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z By the end of the 1500s CE, the total population of what we now call the Western Hemisphere was about one hundred million people. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In 1911, he produced a strange novel, entitled Kantsaywhere, about a future utopia in which roughly half the population was marked as “unfit” and severely restricted in its ability to reproduce. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Because civil penalties and sanctions imposed on people with criminal records applied only to a few, they never operated as a comprehensive system of control over any racially or ethnically defined population. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z It had lasted just six months, yet during that time its gatekeepers recorded 27.5 million visits, this when the country’s total population was 65 million. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Drunkards, incorrigibles, poor whites who didn’t even own shoes delighted in this opportunity to scourge the colored population. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As in when we're not surrounded by the entire population of Bartlett High. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Newborns were beginning to arrive to start the year’s population. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z A chiefdom’s large population in a small area required plenty of food, obtained by food production in most cases, by hunting-gathering in a few especially rich areas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His true passion was the study of populations and growth. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z There could be two hundred and fifty Woodstock Festivals of viruses sitting on that period—the combined populations of Great Britain and France— and you would never know it. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Do you picture it as an untouched, green wilderness with a small scattered population of primitive people, or with no people at all? An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z When Henige wrote Numbers from Nowhere, the fight about pre- Columbian population had already consumed forests’ worth of trees—his bibliography is ninety pages long. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The amount used on California farms alone could, according to one medical authority, “provide a lethal dose for 5 to 10 times the whole world’s population.” Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There they could recover—or die—well away from the healthy population. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Any society with a marked population explosion will be forced to devote all its energies and technological skills to feeding and caring for the population on its home planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The 1932 Detroit Times classifieds, advertised to a population of four million, ran to just over one column. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “What else can I tell you? The population is two point nine million. Between one and ten percent of people identify as Rastafarians. Twenty percent of Jamaicans live below the poverty line.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. You and half the population of Lake Windsor Downs.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The ten-gallon bottles stacked in its bed are clearly visible, and are a let-them-drink-wine sort of slap in the face to an increasingly thirsty population. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z About 80 percent of the population had been born elsewhere; about half had rolled into town during the previous five years. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Jomon people lived at some of the highest population densities ever estimated for hunter-gatherers, especially in central and northern Japan with its nut-rich forests, salmon runs, and productive seas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I saw mountains of potatoes—oceans—more potatoes than you would think the world’s population could consume in a hundred years. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There are few studies more fascinating, and at the same time more neglected, than those of the teeming populations that exist in the dark realms of the soil. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Unable to eliminate the Indigenous population through open warfare, the British eventually launched a campaign of systematic destruction of the Powhatan agricultural resources. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Whites outnumbered slaves two to one in North Carolina, but in Louisiana and Georgia the populations neared parity. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It does mean, though, that a human population as a whole becomes better protected against the pathogen. 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