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  2. Urbanization - Wikipedia

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    Urbanization over the past 500 years [12] A global map illustrating the first onset and spread of urban centres around the world, based on. [13]From the development of the earliest cities in Indus valley civilization, Mesopotamia and Egypt until the 18th century, an equilibrium existed between the vast majority of the population who were engaged in subsistence agriculture in a rural context ...

  3. Human population planning - Wikipedia

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    Khaldoun concluded that high population density rather than high absolute population numbers were desirable to achieve more efficient division of labour and cheap administration. [13] During the Middle Ages in Christian Europe, population issues were rarely discussed in isolation.

  4. Forest - Wikipedia

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    Forest in the Scottish Highlands. Although the word forest is commonly used, there is no universally recognised precise definition, with more than 800 definitions of forest used around the world. [5]

  5. Mimicry - Wikipedia

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    Many insects including hoverflies (C, D, E) and the wasp beetle (F) are Batesian mimics of stinging wasps (A, B), which are Müllerian mimics of each other.. In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species.

  6. Malthusianism - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Robert Malthus, after whom Malthusianism is named. Malthusianism is a theory that population growth is potentially exponential, according to the Malthusian growth model, while the growth of the food supply or other resources is linear, which eventually reduces living standards to the point of triggering a population decline.

  7. Carrying capacity - Wikipedia

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    This is a graph of population change utilizing the logistic curve model. When the population is above the carrying capacity it decreases, and when it is below the carrying capacity it increases. When the Verhulst model is plotted into a graph, the population change over time takes the form of a sigmoid curve, reaching its highest level at K.

  8. Exercise - Wikipedia

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    Cycling is a popular form of exercise. Weight training. Exercise is physical activity that enhances or maintains fitness and overall health. [1] [2] It is performed for various reasons, including weight loss or maintenance, to aid growth and improve strength, develop muscles and the cardiovascular system, hone athletic skills, improve health, [3] or simply for enjoyment.

  9. Population growth - Wikipedia

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    Estimates of population evolution in different continents between 1950 and 2050 according to the United Nations. The vertical axis is logarithmic and is in millions of people. (2011) World population growth rates between 1950 and 2050. The world population growth rate peaked in 1963 at 2.2% per year and subsequently declined. [11]