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Do Lemmings Commit Suicide?: Beautiful Hypotheses and Ugly Facts

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In 1929, a group of scientists, including the author, working at the
Bureau of Animal Population, Oxford University, began "the pursuit of the ecological Holy Grail", a scientific endeavor devoted to the search for the secret mechanisms behind biological life cycles as they occur in many animal populations. The results are presented here, in an account of science, not as it should be, but as it really is.
Unlike nearly all science books which tell of successful ventures and satisfactory …