Universe 25

[kitty125]

I found this article interesting and thought i should share it. In short a late scientist conducted experiments with mice to show what overpopulation could do to a species.the results werent too good and some of them actually rang a bell to me personally to what is happening today in our world. I dont think we are necessarily immune to this outcome.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1644264/pdf/procrsmed00338-0007.pdf

 

[Hesper]

This is some fascinating stuff. Thank you for bringing it here, kitty125.

In the normal course of events in a natural ecological setting somewhat more young survive to maturity than are necessary to replace their dying or senescent established associates. The excess that find no social niches emigrate. However, in my experimental universe there was no opportunity for emigration. As the unusually large number of young gained adulthood they had to remain, and they did contest for roles in the filled social system. Males who failed withdrew physically and psychologically; they became very inactive and
aggregated in large pools near the centre of the floor of the universe. From this point on they no longer initiated interaction with their established associates, nor did their behaviour elicit attack by territorial males. Even so, they became characterized by many wounds and much scar tissue as a result of attacks by other withdrawn males.

There are so many interesting elements in the above-mentioned portion of the study. According to this "Phase C", which came after the many reproductive roles in the mouse society were already filled, is teeming with learned helplessness, maternal failure, misplaced anger, "narcissistic family" activity, and immediately precedes "Phase D", societal death. And the pathocrat in the above scenario? The scientist. Really helps put things into perspective. Thanks for sharing.