[FRIAM] ill-conceived question

[Gary Schiltz]

The human civilization that has developed over the last handful of
millennia is a pretty thin veneer over the basic drives that control the
rats' behavior. Like most of us, I've grown up dependent on that thin
veneer, and would sorely miss it :-)  I'm not very optimistic that it will
survive, but I rather hope it does.

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 1:38 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> Nick
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels
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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.  >
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> Maybe the rats were right?
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> Marcus
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