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THERE is no doubt as to the interest of biologists in all questions relating to populations and the struggle for existence. The author attacks these both as an expert mathematician and as a biologist, which his work shows to be a necessary combination. In animals, the processes in the struggle are much more complicated than in plants, where certain principles seem likely to be enunciated within a few years. Population growth requires to be studied together with its limiting factors, and this is further developed in chapters relating to the competitions both between species of yeasts and between species of Paramecium. Then follows a study of two species one of which devours the other, the chain here being Bacteria Paramecium. Didinium. In Nature there can be no constancy of conditions; perpetual interferences, proved to be often due to immigrations, allowing no constancy of results.
The Struggle for Existence
By G. F. Cause. Pp. ix + 163. (Baltimoro, Md.: The Williams and Wilkins Co.; London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1934.) 13s. 6d.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 136, 322 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136322b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136322b0