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Latest Cal Nat Blog for May 24th, 2021

What are the mechanisms that keep populations in check?

“ There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.” — John Keats In his 1798 book, An Essay on the Principle of Population, using an elegant mathematical model, Thomas Malthus showed that if unchecked, populations will grow exponentially until they consume all available resources. Malthus was focused on humans, but his model...