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Population growth didn't begin to increase substantially until after the development of agriculture, around 8000-9000 thousand years ago. However, even then, growth was FAR lower than it is today in the developing world. As a side note, the native Australian aborigines never developed agriculture, and so their populations remained fairly stable.

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And you know humans learned how to plant seeds 9000 years ago how? Where'd that number come from... I understand what you mean about there not being enough meat to go around so they cut back on population. This is more revolved around a tribe in the woods type of people though. People on the coast should be rather abundant in fish for a very large population. And what about chickens, cows, ect.? Yes this is a form of agriculture, but should have come more natural to the woodsman. Especially given 194,000 years humans had to learn it. Why did we magically discover agriculture 9,000 years ago? Why not 20,000 years ago, or even 21,000 years before that? Too many loose ends to tie up.