What if the pre-Columbian population of America had been unconstrained by Malthusian factors? What if a population arriving in 12000 BC had doubled in size--as human populations with ample food do--each generation?
Then by 3000 BC we would have had 13 billion people in the New World. We didn't. Even by 1500 the maximum estimated population of the New World was only 100 million or so...
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