Demongeot Jacques and Demetrius Lloyd. ? Natural selection and demographic drift : an empirical study of France (1860-1965). One of the central issues in demography concerns evaluating the effects of endogenous (socio-cultural and genetic) and exogenous (wars, epidemics,...) factors on temporal...

Demetrius Lloyd. Demography, Growth Rate and Entropy. The formal theory of thermodynamics is closely similar to the theory of stable populations. A close examination of this analogy shows that the concept of 'entropy' used in statistical mechanics to describe the number of possible states of a...