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 

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]

 <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> 
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

 

 

From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2020 12:15 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

 

< 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

.-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... .... 
. ...
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6  bit.ly/virtualfriam
unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ 

Reply via email to