@maxdancona,
pop growth dynamics has been mostly run wrt bactria an Malthus. In a bactee growth curve, it has been definitionally placed into 4 stages
1 lag phase (where the number of initial cells increases arithmtically then geomtrically)
2,,anexponntial growth (where ^n+1 is the increasing xponent.(for humans it is holocene through 1980)_
3 a stationary phase (growth effectively ceases)
4 aSenescence phase, where apoptosis kicks in and th population begins to succumb to a decline in one of the resources that life needs (Malthus kicks in here)
I hadda dig up one of my microbio texts
were in a sort of early senescence with the exception of a few african and asian rsource minimum populations (This used to be called " LEIBIG's
nd SHELFORD'S LAWS OF THE MINIMUM and LAWS OF TOLERANCE)
in English it sorta says that Population growth an stability of an organism (or a population) occurs wrt to that nutritive and environmental resource that is LEAST available. That was maybe 50 yars Before Malthus