Animals usually slow reproduction to control pop but body growth can change. Some fish won't grow as large in crowded, tight conditions
Biologist friends: are you aware of any living organism that can *self* regulate its own excess growth?
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But in times of plenty, any examples? Like, the winning math is mostly ravenous consumption until overcrowding, right?
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"Ok. Too many of us. Let's cut back." Nature regulates through selection; I'm trying to catalog self-regulation even absent scarcity
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Population. Unclear from Original i post I see
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You might find something applicable in quorum sensing, microbes
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Hrm. Ironically a place i should have looked first, since thats a pillar of my dissertation
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We normally think of it as to control competitors, but maybe there are other self regulatory modes. You'll have to dm me on ur thesis
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