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The great advanges during the past 30 years in medical and dental sciences, in marine and aquatic sciences, and in food production and technology have had a part in generating environmental factors that increasingly threaten human welfare. Population biology is concerned with the factors that affect both the quantity and quality of the human populations, but this branch of biology also concerns itself with populations of other organisms. Man eventually relates his population levels to those of other animal and plant communities, and he regulates his environment in a way that will benefit both himself and his total environment.
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Bang, F.B. (1972). Population biology. In: Fisher, K.D., Nixon, A.U. (eds) The Science of Life. FASEB Monographs, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-2628-1_6
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