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A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 The Fibonacci sequence (1202)
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    Chapter 2 Halley’s life table (1693)
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    Chapter 3 Euler and the geometric growth of populations (1748–1761)
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    Chapter 4 Daniel Bernoulli, d’Alembert and the inoculation of smallpox (1760)
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    Chapter 5 Malthus and the obstacles to geometric growth (1798)
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    Chapter 6 Verhulst and the logistic equation (1838)
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    Chapter 7 Bienaymé, Cournot and the extinction of family names (1845–1847)
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    Chapter 8 Mendel and heredity (1865)
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    Chapter 9 Galton, Watson and the extinction problem (1873–1875)
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    Chapter 10 Lotka and stable population theory (1907–1911)
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    Chapter 11 The Hardy–Weinberg law (1908)
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    Chapter 12 Ross and malaria (1911)
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    Chapter 13 Lotka, Volterra and the predator–prey system (1920–1926)
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    Chapter 14 Fisher and natural selection (1922)
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    Chapter 15 Yule and evolution (1924)
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    Chapter 16 McKendrick and Kermack on epidemic modelling (1926–1927)
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    Chapter 17 Haldane and mutations (1927)
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    Chapter 18 Erlang and Steffensen on the extinction problem (1929–1933)
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    Chapter 19 Wright and random genetic drift (1931)
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    Chapter 20 The diffusion of genes (1937)
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    Chapter 21 The Leslie matrix (1945)
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    Chapter 22 Percolation and epidemics (1957)
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    Chapter 23 Game theory and evolution (1973)
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    Chapter 24 Chaotic populations (1974)
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    Chapter 25 China’s one-child policy (1980)
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    Chapter 26 Some contemporary problems
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