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Originally posted by zipzip:
in layman's terms,
1) they can run out of chow
2) not enough room to relieve themselves
3) don't like crowds
I was thinking more in terms of taking only one date and population and extrapolating back, also assuming that the time it takes to double the population is constant seems to me to be a gross error, I would imagine that the human population stayed pretty constant up untill the advent of agriculture (apart from probably taking a hit during the ice ages)....
Also to use population data for the isrealites no matter how (/if) faithfully recorded raises issues of its own, didn`t the Isrealites at some points subjugate/exterminate neighbouring tribes and take the young women as concubines? wonder what that did to the rate of population growth compared to the whole world population....
Thats not all by a long shot but its proobably enough for now...