a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum's report was "a methodological embarrassment" because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受伤害的) regions.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

Among human populations, culture not only affects the way we live, but also writes itself into our genes, affecting who we are.

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

An individual's genetics has a big influence on their height but once you average over whole populations, genetics plays a less key role.

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section C

As such, different populations of killer whales have had to learn different hunting techniques in order to gain the upper hand over their local prey.

2019年6月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

It can also be exploitative, especially when used with vulnerable populations.

2016年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

Marine life may be affected too: El niños can reduce the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich water that supports large fish 35 populations, and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral.

2015年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section A

without upgrades and new capacity, bridges, roads and power systems are unable to cope with expanding populations.

2017年12月四级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

Societies that cannot replace their populations discourage investment and innovation.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Fully developed, mature, post-industrial societies, such as those in Europe, characterised by stable or declining populations which are increasing in age

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Until the early 1990s nobody much thought about whole populations getting older.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

To tackle the problem of ageing populations at its root, "old" countries would have to rejuvenate (使.轻) themselves by having more of their own children

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

After that, a few small populations left Africa to populate the rest of the world.

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

As conservation areas become smaller, lions are increasingly coming into contact with human populations, which are expanding to the boundaries of these protected areas.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

Demography also includes the study of non-living objects like light bulbs and taxi cabs, and buildings because these are also populations.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Globally, urban populations are expected to double in the next 40 years, and an extra 2 billion people will need new places to live, as well as services and ways to move around their cities.

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

It studies these populations, in the past, present and future, using quantitative data and mathematical models as tools of analysis.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

It's in these populations that we begin to see real changes in the genetic makeup of natural coloring.

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

It's not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses like influenza, the bacteria in your gut, plants that you eat, animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat.

2017年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Most people would love to get students from more underserved populations, but they just can't get them in the door.

2017年6月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section B

rising temperatures and overfishing in the pristine waters around the Antarctic could see king penguin populations pushed to the brink of extinction by the end of the century, according to a new study.

2019年12月六级真题（第三套）阅读 Section C

They hypothesize that language diversity must be about history cultural differences, mountains or oceans dividing populations.

2018年12月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

What we see today is the product of evolutionary events resulting from the dispersal of a few human populations out of Africa around 60, 000 to 70, 000 years ago.

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

Deer and elk populations — major food sources for the wolf – grew rapidly.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Elk, deer, and coyote populations are down, while beavers and red fores have made a comeback.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

In recent years some Inuit people in Nunavut have reported increases in bear sightings around human settlements, leading to a belief that populations are increasing.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 语法填空 原文

In the 1960s, scientists proposed that predators at the top of a food web had a surprising amount of control over the size of populations of other species - including species they did not directly attack.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

In the absence of wolves, coyote populations also grew quickly.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Modem methods of/for tracking polar bear populations have been employed only since the mid-1980s, and are expensive to perform consistently over a large area.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 语法填空 原文

Scientists have responded by noting that hungry bears may be congregating聚集 around human settlements, leading to the illusion错觉 that populations are higher than they actually are.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 语法填空 原文

The populations of other species will experience unexpected changes.

2019年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

Building on this basic truth about interpersonal influence, the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations, manipulating a number of variables relating to people's ability to influen

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

USFWS also set an interim goal of restoring prairie chicken populations to an annual average of 67, 000 birds over the next 10 years.

2016年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ