carrying capacity

Examples of carrying capacity in the following topics:

• Malthus' Theory of Population Growth

  • In other words, humans would outpace their local carrying capacity, the capacity of ecosystems or societies to support the local population.
  • Malthusians would cite epidemics and starvation in overpopulated urban slums, like this one in Cairo, as natural checks on growing populations that have exceeded the carrying capacities of their local environments.

• Population Trends

  • Overpopulation indicates a scenario in which the population of a living species exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche.
  • Once the population exceeded the planet's carrying capacity, the population would be restrained through mass famine and starvation.

• Implications of Different Rates of Growth

  • Humans are not unique in their capacity for overpopulation; in general terms, overpopulation indicates a scenario in which the population of a living species exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche.

• Population Growth and Overpopulation

  • Overpopulation indicates a scenario in which the population of a living species exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche.

• The Symbolic Nature of Culture

  • Although language is perhaps the most obvious system of symbols we use to communicate, many things we do carry symbolic meaning.
  • Anthropologists have argued that, through the course of their evolution, human beings evolved a universal human capacity to classify experiences, and encode and communicate them symbolically, such as with written language .
  • That this capacity for symbolic thinking and social learning is a product of human evolution confounds older arguments about nature versus nurture.

• Language

  • Language may refer either to the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such.
  • Language may refer either to the specifically human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, or to a specific instance of such a system of complex communication.

• The Origins of Culture

  • In the mid-19th century, some scientists used the term "culture" to refer to a universal human capacity.
  • Specifically, the term "culture" in American anthropology had two meanings: (1) the evolved human capacity to classify and represent experiences with symbols, and to act imaginatively and creatively; and (2) the distinct ways that people living in different parts of the world acted creatively and classified or represented their experiences.
  • The origin of language, understood as the human capacity of complex symbolic communication, and the origin of complex culture are often thought to stem from the same evolutionary process in early man.

• Lenski's Sociological Evolution Approach

  • Human reproductive capacity exceeds the available resources in the environment.
  • According to Lenski, human capacity for population growth has been a "profoundly destabilizing force throughout human history and may well be the ultimate source of most social and cultural change."

• Capitalism

  • Labour power: Labour includes all mental and physical human resources, including entrepreneurial capacity and management skills, which are needed to transform one type of commodity into another.
  • The government also carries out a number of important economic functions.
  • Capitalism does promote economic growth, as measured by Gross Domestic Product or GDP), capacity utilization or standard of living.

• The Evolution of Health Care and Medicine

  • This issue is particularly important in the treatment of children and individuals whose capacity to evaluate the treatment is impaired.
  • The western scientific community argues that many studies carried out by alternative medicine promoters are flawed, as they often use testimonials and hearsay as evidence, leaving the results open to observer bias.