 Complete the following phrase:  Herlihy also examined the arguments against the Malthusian crisis, stating if the Black Death was a response to excessive human numbers it should have arrived several decades earlier in consequence of the population growth of years before the outbreak of the Black Death. Herlihy also brings up other, biological factors that argue against the plague as a reckoning by arguing the role of famines in affecting population movements is also problematic. The many famines preceding the Black Death, even the 