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Social change and human population movements — dental morphology in Holocene Eastern Africa
Azania, 2018Millions of Eastern Africans are pastoralists, yet the origins of mobile herding in this region are unclear. Global climate change at the end of the African Humid Period pushed humans and their livestock out of desiccating areas of the Sahara, Sahel and ...
Elizabeth A. Sawchuk
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Population Movements and Investment (II)
The Journal of Finance, 1951UP TO THIS POINT we have been considering the growth of population in the United States, but have not discussed its redistribution. For some parts of the country are growing while others are declining in population. Let us first review the main trends with respect to redistribution as revealed by the decennial census taken last year.
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Historical Population Movements in Europe Influence Genetic Relationships in Modern Samples
Human Biology: The Official Publication of the American Association of Anthropological Genetics, 2012We have newly constructed an ethnohistorical database consisting of 3460 records of ethnic locations and movements in Europe since 2200 B.C. Using this database, we computed vectors of proportions that peoples speaking various language families ...
R. Sokal +4 more
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American Journal of Sociology, 1935
The effects of the depression on births and deaths are not very clearly marked. The number of births declined less in the five years 1929-34 than in the five years 1924-29. This was scarcely to be expected. Deaths show a steady decline during the depression until 1934, the lowest recorded rate we have ever had being in 1933.
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The effects of the depression on births and deaths are not very clearly marked. The number of births declined less in the five years 1929-34 than in the five years 1924-29. This was scarcely to be expected. Deaths show a steady decline during the depression until 1934, the lowest recorded rate we have ever had being in 1933.
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Populations, Patchiness, and Movement
2019This chapter describes how population sizes change. Understanding the dynamics of populations involves studying the key demographic processes of birth, death, immigration, and emigration. Much of twentieth-century population ecology concentrated on explaining population dynamics of closed populations, using the effects of density on births and deaths ...
Francis Gilbert, Hilary Gilbert
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2006
Abstract Information on the origins of those who died was included in many epitaphs, and this can be used, albeit imperfectly, to study physical mobility in the Roman empire. These details might reveal the voting district in which the person was registered, the city or province of origin, or, in the case of non-citizens, the ethnic ...
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Abstract Information on the origins of those who died was included in many epitaphs, and this can be used, albeit imperfectly, to study physical mobility in the Roman empire. These details might reveal the voting district in which the person was registered, the city or province of origin, or, in the case of non-citizens, the ethnic ...
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Using geotagged tweets to track population movements to and from Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria
, 2020Y. Martín +4 more
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Population Problems and Movements
1981The rapid acceleration in world population growth first began in western Europe and was linked on the one hand with improvements in diet, medicine, hygiene and health which increased life expectancy, and with the revolutions in agriculture and industry on the other hand.
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Journal of the American Statistical Association, 1937
Robert M. Woodbury, Robert R. Kuczynski
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Robert M. Woodbury, Robert R. Kuczynski
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The Population Movement Flourishes
1995As recounted in Chapter 1, the Ford Foundation joined the postwar population movement with two substantial grants to the Population Council, made through the Behavioral Sciences Program, in 1954 and 1957. In the minds of the officers responsible for behavioral sciences at the foundation, population was apparently not a memorable activity.
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