How do limiting factors that affect all plant and animal populations also help explain the history of the human population? How do they help predict future changes?

The human population is shaped by limiting factors just like any other population. Limiting factors include space, food, water, disease, oxygen, and temperature. Throughout history, we can see how human settlement, population, and growth has developed to make optimal use of the resources that were available to society. Paying attention to which resources are growing scarcer, which factors are becoming more prevalent, and what society is doing to adapt to the natural changes driven by time and populational development can help us predict future changes that humanity will have to fight or adapt to (such as food and fuel scarcity, as well as increasingly common pandemics that occur as the result of direct and indirect human-caused genetic modification of bacteria and viruses).

Explanation:

more words for this could be abiotic and biotic

abiotic: living organisms within an ecosystem

biotic: non-living organisms within an ecosystem