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Did agriculture cause the population explosion?

Nature volume 397, page 101 (1999)Cite this article

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I was pleased to see Thomas Malthus commemorated in Roger Short's bicentennial essay1, but disappointed that agriculture's role in the population explosion was ignored.

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