The Numbers of Man and Animals

orig.cloth Slight spine slope, corner bump, minor rubbing, VG. Textual graphs & tables 22x14cm, vii,152 pp, Several pages bear lightly pencilled marginal marks. Contains 13 papers. Includes: A.T. Peacock "Economic Theory & the Concept of an Optimum Population"; E. Grebenik "The Growth of Human Populations"; I Schapera "An Anthropologist's Approach to Population Growth: Studies in Bechuanaland Protectorate"; J.G. Skellam "The Mathematical Approach to Population Dynamics"; D. Lack "The Mortality Factors Affecting Adult Numbers"; D. Chitty "Adverse Effects of Population Density upon the Viability of Later Generations"; T. Park "Experimental Competition in Beetles, with some General Implications"; A.L. Banks "The Relationship between Disease Control & Changes in Population Growth and Age Structure"; A.S. Parkes "Some Biological Aspects of Population Problems"; J. Hammond " The Effects of Nutrition on Fertility in Animal & Human Populations"; F. Darling "Pastoralism in Relation to Populations of Men & Animals"; L.S. Penrose "Changes in the Quality of Human Populations"; etc. Slight spine slope, corner bump, minor rubbing, VG.…