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Originally Posted by RWebb

even the Black Plague was not a sufficient mortality event to cause much of a dent in human popn growth, so the deer herd analogy does not work on a popn ecology level

You don't think?

Statistics | The Black Death

The Black Death in Numbers

From 1347 to 1350 the Black Death struck Europe:

· In less than two years 30% to 60% of the population of Europe was wiped out.

· Nearly 75 million died in western Europe alone.

· 18000 people died in London in the course of three years.

· Almost 1/3 of the worlds population had died from the plague by 1350.

· Estimates go from 100 to 200 million deaths worldwide.

· The mortality rate of the bubonic plague was 30% to 75% percent.

· Within 1-7 days the first symptoms occurred, including fever, nausea, headache and an infection the lymph nodes.

Black Death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The aftermath of the plague created a series of religious, social, and economic upheavals, which had profound effects on the course of European history. It took 150 years for Europe's population to recover.

30-60% and 150 years sounds like a pretty big dent to me.