#population dynamics

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Alleles in a Population

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[alienjanky]

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Third, disease ecology shaped mortality rates and population dynamics.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

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Despite the tingling fear we still feel in the face of large animals, fire made predators a negligible factor in human population dynamics. The warmth, security, and mystic peace you feel around the campfire have been instilled by almost two million years of evolutionary advantage given to us by the flames.³¹

31. Archaeologists have found a remarkable demonstration of our ancestors' newfound power at a site in South Africa known as the Sterkfontein caves. For millennia, big cats used the cave as a den to much on their prey, as referenced bye australopithecine bones. Sometime after, following the mastery of fire, Homo not only evicted the cats but took condition of the cave as their new home.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

TSRNOSS, p 758.

[clara-the-cat]

I've actually been thinking about if it's possible to have an entire demographic of people move into a low population state and out vote their original population to take over their government

Like, the electoral college gives disproportionately more power to smaller states, so what if we just started invading those states to gain more power on the national scale?

Not to mention Congressional elections...

All of the gay people in America moved to Idaho, then kicked out the cishets and renamed it to Yassachusetts. Whenever there was an election it would be listed as a rainbow state instead of red or blue.

[gunsatthaphan]

delulu-town, population: 2

[tanadrin]

What response would you recommend to people attacking shipping? For that matter, what response would you recommend to Hamas doing that thing they did last October, which everyone has decided didn't happen and wouldn't matter if it did? I don't think the current response is good, but the alternative being offered is literally "roll over and die."

We are so far past a reasonable response to what Hamas did in October that “well what would you have done?” feels like a question that’s in extraordinarily bad faith, whether or not you mean it that way. A policy genuinely aimed at preventing massacres like the one in October starts with not illegally occupying territory, stalling a peace process indefinitely, and persistently dehumanizing and abusing a large civilian population—by the time we’re asking “how do you respond to a group like Hamas attacking civilians” we are already in the realm of abject policy failures, because a group like Hamas only exists because of Israeli policies. An honest response would be something like “fundamentally reassess our approach to Palestine.”

But if Israel has the kind of politics, and Netanyahu was the kind of leader, capable of doing that, it’s hard to imagine things getting this bad in the first place. This is one reason it’s important to put pressure on governments like the UK and US to criticize Israel’s actions, because the push for restraint is not going to come from within Israeli politics.

[tides-that-bind-us]

Meet my rito OC, Nerisa!

She's based on a Snowy/Wandering Albatross and uses her large wingspan to glide nonstop over the ocean to keep a lookout for lost souls at sea.

Because she spends a lot of time in the air, like her animal counterpart, she has a difficult time landing.

She also has a crush on Penn

[goddesspharo]

Sorry, nobody down here but the FBI's most unwanted. [Top Gun: Maverick The X-Files AU]

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In addition, our demographic success was probably interrupted by epidemic waves; even if these were smaller than what lay in store for the future, they were nonetheless consequential for hunter-gatherer population dynamics.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[bloodtwin]

disease in my brain that makes me so shy & hesitant to ever follow canons that i ship puck with first bc what if they think i am insane ........... & then i have to dig a hole in the ground to hide there forever bc my crush doesnt like meeeeeeeee

[fappellmoan]

sorry to be bold but i think if you’re really frustrated with every episode of yellowjackets and think it’s lame or nothings happened maybe it just isn’t the show for you

[maironsbigboobs]

re: elf servants

I think generally there are servants in royal/noble households simply for practical reasons and they generally fall into 2 categories: specialised servants (think, stewards and messengers and scribes, masters of horses or kennels, that kind of thing) and servants who help with the upkeep of the household (cleaning, repairs, cooking and also the apprentices and assistants of specialised servants)

specialised servants are probably quite prestigious roles and fields of industry in their own right, and they are considered full members of a household, and probably are closely linked to the person they serve - it's as much a political and social statement to be Finwe's chief scribe as it is an economic one

but the second category are more associated with the house than the family living in it - for example, Finwe's palace in Tirion would function both as a home and a diplomatic and administrative centre, it would be impossible for him to rule and keep up with chores himself. But Fingolfin's personal home would probably not have any full-time servants - when there more people than usual to feed or house then professionals might be hired, but for the most part I imagine the day to day is done by the family (made possible by the fact elves sleep and eat less than humans)

IRL domestic service (at least in the 18th century) often functioned as a kind of prep stage for adult life (for women in particular, but gender is probably not as big a factor for elves) and I could definitely see this in Valinor - domestic servants being 80% elves between 50-100 who haven't chosen an apprenticeship or similar in another field who are earning extra money to set up their own households, getting experience outside of the family, meeting others in their own ae cohort, learning independence etc. It's a job that comes with the offer of room and board + the wages a king/prince/lord can provide. Not glamorous, but not terrible.

The other 20% is made up of professional servants - experienced elves who are genuinely like the work and are contracted workers as much as a builder or gardener might be. Some of them might be independent and others part of businesses set up by other elves who are really into cooking/cleaning etc.

In Beleriand the situation (for the exiles at least) is probably very different, though I think there would be attempts to adapt the system - but there aren't as many households that need servants and there aren't as many young elves.