Notes
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.It is curious how seldom: George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier
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4 .next 123 years: Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel, “When the World’s Popu-
lation Took Off: The Springboard of the Neolithic Demographic Transi-
tion,” Science 333 , no. 604 ( July 0 ): 60 – 6 , https://doi.org/ 0 . 6 /science
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of World Population” and “World Population,” accessed May , 0 7 , http:
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