[FRIAM] ill-conceived question

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Well, in a sense that’s correct.  But their method of “birth control” <https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238356686_A_Utopian_perspective_on_ecology_and_development>  is not one that I am prepared to take as a model.  Just imagine the worst sort of dystopian post apocalyptic novel.  See the description of the Calhoun experiment on p 224. 

 

Nick 

 

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Clark University

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< You recall that I invoked as a model that experiment in which 24 rats were put in a quarter acre enclosure in Baltimore and fed and watered and protected to see how the population would develop.  They never got above two hundred.  >

 

Maybe the rats were right?

 

Marcus

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