I once taught an honors course, with Father Smith at St. Thomas on the Anthropology and Theology of War. One of the prime forces behind war — since prehistory — had been nothing more than birth control.
davew On Sat, May 2, 2020, at 12:37 PM, thompnicks...@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. > > Nick > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > thompnicks...@gmail.com > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels > *Sent:* Saturday, May 2, 2020 12:15 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> > *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/ >
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