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Write a critique of natural law theories on population.

  • 20 marks
  • Population Geography

Natural law theories explain fertility by a biological, physiological or quasi-natural mechanism rather than by social and economic conditions. Malthus, Sadler, Doubleday, Spencer, Gini, Pearl and de Castro each proposed a universal law — of ratios, density, diet, nervous energy, organic decay or logistic growth — that would hold everywhere. Every one of them has…

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  • What Makes a Theory a Natural Law Theory
  • Malthus: The Parent Argument
  • The Claim and the Mechanism
  • The Critique
  • Sadler: Fecundity Against Density
  • Doubleday: The Diet Theory
  • …and 9 more sections, with a conclusion

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