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  2. Population cycle - Wikipedia

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    It was finally identified that the cycle of high and low catches ran over approximately a ten-year period. The most well known example of creatures which have a population cycle is the lemming. [3] The biologist Charles Sutherland Elton first identified in 1924 that the lemming had regular cycles of population growth and decline. When their ...

  3. Behavioral sink - Wikipedia

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    The term and concept derive from a series of over-population experiments Calhoun conducted on Norway rats between 1958 and 1962. [1] In the experiments, Calhoun and his researchers created a series of "rat utopias" [ 2 ] – enclosed spaces where rats were given unlimited access to food and water, enabling unfettered population growth.

  4. Scientific method - Wikipedia

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    The history of scientific method considers changes in the methodology of scientific inquiry, not the history of science itself. The development of rules for scientific reasoning has not been straightforward; scientific method has been the subject of intense and recurring debate throughout the history of science, and eminent natural philosophers and scientists have argued for the primacy of ...

  5. Cell synchronization - Wikipedia

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    Cell synchronization is a process by which cells in a culture at different stages of the cell cycle are brought to the same phase. Cell synchrony is a vital process in the study of cells progressing through the cell cycle as it allows population-wide data to be collected rather than relying solely on single-cell experiments.

  6. Delayed density dependence - Wikipedia

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    Ecologists have been unable to successfully explain regular population cycles for many decades; delayed density dependence may hold the answer. [2] Here populations are allowed to increase above their normal capacity because there is a time lag until negative feedback mechanisms bring the population back down.

  7. E. coli long-term evolution experiment - Wikipedia

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    The 12 E. coli LTEE populations on June 25, 2008. [1]The E. coli long-term evolution experiment (LTEE) is an ongoing study in experimental evolution begun by Richard Lenski at the University of California, Irvine, carried on by Lenski and colleagues at Michigan State University, [2] and currently overseen by Jeffrey Barrick at the University of Texas at Austin. [3]

  8. Conway's Game of Life - Wikipedia

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    In fact, it takes 1103 generations to stabilize, by which time it has a population of 116 and has generated six escaping gliders; [23] these were the first spaceships ever discovered. [ 24 ] Frequently occurring [ 25 ] [ 26 ] examples (in that they emerge frequently from a random starting configuration of cells) of the three aforementioned ...

  9. Life history theory - Wikipedia

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    Life history theory (LHT) is an analytical framework [1] designed to study the diversity of life history strategies used by different organisms throughout the world, as well as the causes and results of the variation in their life cycles. [2]