Roadways, fences, and other abrupt, human-defined edges can act as barriers ... that can reduce the proliferation of unsustainable growth patterns. Local planning policies can help guide growth ...

The colonization-followed-by-extinction pattern can be seen as recently as 2,000 years ... history. . . . We live on a human-dominated planet and the momentum of human population growth, together with ...

Indeed, an analysis of the growth of the US human population in the nineteenth century reveals an interesting pattern, one that is repeated with many other organisms. If we estimate the intrinsic ...

British scientists unveiled research indicating that the human brain grew slowly over ... the scientists were able to compare different growth patterns and address uncertainty with advanced ...