Evolution of human density

The maps below are based on results from a numerical human dispersal model, which is forced by spatiotemporal estimates of climate and sea levels changes over the past 125 thousand years.

Axel Timmermann & Tobias Friedrich, International Pacific Research Center, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Ecoclimax is defined by Odum (1969) as the culmination state after a succession in a stabilized ecosystem in which maximum biomass (or high information content) and symbiotic function among organisms is kept per unit of available energy flow.