TITLE

Can Man Domesticate Himself?

AUTHOR(S)

Revelle, Roger

PUB. DATE

February 1966

SOURCE

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;Feb1966, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p2

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

The article offers information about the author's views on controlling the population of man. The author holds that man has never been able to domesticate himself as evidenced by the wild manifestations of the workings. The present rates of human population growth confront the experts with a problem that is unique in the long history of man's species. For many years, the control of population had not been successful. Thus, the author believes that population studies should focus on the drama of living human beings, rather than on their entrances and their exits on the stage of life.

ACCESSION #

21690818

Tags: POPULATION;  HUMAN ecology;  DEMOGRAPHY;  HUMAN geography;  POPULATION policy;  POPULATION research;  POPULATION density;  DEMOGRAPHIC transition;  SOCIAL sciences

 

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