147 - Universe 25 - Utopia Gone Wrong

Published: Dec. 7, 2021, 5 a.m.

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John B. Calhoun was interested in looking at the effects of overcrowding on societies of mammals, so he created a mouse utopia, Universe 25.\\xa0 Universe 25 was an environment made with unlimited supplies of food and water with no predators, where the mice could live without stress and allow their population to grow without environmental restriction.\\xa0 What he found was an initial utopia with explosive population growth, but it eventually led to a complete collapse of the social structure of the mice and the death of the entire colony.\\xa0 What can we learn from this experiment and how might if parallel human society?\\xa0 Come find out!

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