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Such a harsh note by the editor, against the comments received by the Essay [9], takes us back to the atmosphere of those times and to the discussions that the Principle of population sustained by Thomas Robert Malthus, caused and fed since the first edition of the book in 1798. Actually this Principle can be stated in a few words:
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1 A note by the editor to “Summary View on the Principle of Population” by T.R. Malthus, 1830.
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2 The celebrated model named after Volterra and Lotka will be discussed later in Chap. 6.
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3 or hunting, or harvesting.
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Iannelli, M., Pugliese, A. (2014). Malthus, Verhulst and all that. In: An Introduction to Mathematical Population Dynamics. UNITEXT(), vol 79. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03026-5_1
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