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Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan — The Population Studies Center is one of the oldest demography centers in the United States, with a distinguished record in both domestic and international population research and training. Introduction and Activities The University of Michigan s… … Wikipedia
Population Matters — Founder(s) David Willey Founded 1991 Location United Kingdom Key people … Wikipedia
Population viability analysis — (PVA) is a species specific method of risk assessment frequently used in conservation biology. It is traditionally defined as the process that determines the probability that a population will go extinct within a given number of years. More… … Wikipedia
Population groups in biomedicine — Biomedical researchers subdivide populations into groups with the goal of improving the prevention and treatment of diseases. Many studies have found that disease susceptibility and environmental responses vary among U.S. ethnicities, among New… … Wikipedia
POPULATION — Methodological Uncertainties Because of the great difficulties in ascertaining human population data in general, and Jewish data in particular, especially in ancient and medieval times, a word of caution is even more necessary here than in most… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
population — populational, adj. populationless, adj. /pop yeuh lay sheuhn/, n. 1. the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area. 2. the body of inhabitants of a place: The population of the city opposes the addition of… … Universalium
Population — In biology a population is the collection of inter breeding organisms of a particular species; in sociology, a collection of human beings. A population shares a particular characteristic of interest, most often that of living in a given… … Wikipedia
Population history of indigenous peoples of the Americas — Natives of North America. Natives of South America. The po … Wikipedia
Population stratification — is the presence of a systematic difference in allele frequencies between subpopulations in a population possible due to different ancestry. Population stratification is also referred to as population structure. Causes of population stratification … Wikipedia
Population dynamics — is the branch of life sciences that studies short term and long term changes in the size and age composition of populations, and the biological and environmental processes influencing those changes. Population dynamics deals with the way… … Wikipedia
