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> Japanese
That's interesting, and the bit about medieval Europe is news to me.
We often talk about species that thrive on human proximity (raccoons, deer, bears, coyotes, ravens and crows, plants that like disturbed soil like mulleins and lupines, barn owls, house sparrows whose very names tell the story) and ones that don't (beavers, mountain lions, great grey owls, most wetlands species since we love to drain them).
Anyway, it's an interesting idea that there is a human density that leads to max diversity and that density is not zero.