Author: Mark Nathan Cohen
Mark Nathan Cohen is University Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York. He is author of The Food Crisis in Prehistory (Yale University Press, 1977) and other books and senior editor of Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture (Academic Press, 1984).
Carrying Capacity
How many are too many? The earth’s ability to support human life is usually described as the potential productivity of the world’s food supply enhanced by human technological invention. The term most often applied is carrying capacity, which refers to the maximum size of any population (including people) that available resources can support without themselves …