Scaling these studies to population-level analysis will allow us to frame this knowledge within the context of population forces, which may yield new insights into evolutionary dynamics.
Even with surge forces implemented we are still nowhere near an adequate "peace-keeper to population" force ratio of 50 1 that would be necessary to pacify Iraq.
Angola today, for most people, is a truly awful place to live in, with widespread penury, the second-highest child mortality rate in the world, and a quarter of the population forced out of their homes by fighting.
Africa cannot afford to have a section of its population force-fed on a limited version of the internet.
North Korea suffered a severe famine in the 1990s, with hundreds of thousands believed to have starved to death and huge swaths of the population forced to resort to eating bark and leaves to survive.
The violence in Yemen brought about more new internal displacement than any other conflict in 2015, with almost 10% of its population forced into internal exile.
Economically, the Free State was a disaster that impoverished the majority of the population, forced millions to emigrate, and maintained a near state theocracy in power for decades and decades.
With large sectors of the population forced into resettlement camps, food production was severely limited.
The Philippines' basic education sector has been long criticized for its inability to adequately prepare and train much of the population, forcing a draconian reform under the Aquino administration, but the country's leading educational institutions are also paying the prize of underinvestment and lack of prioritization by both the state as well as private institutions.
Waves of immigration from the former empire after the second world war began to change the nature of the English population, forcing a reconsideration of what identity meant and who belonged where.
