Royal Free Disease 2.0.

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In the 1960s and 70s, John Calhoun, an American biologist, was interested in what happens to rats and mice when they’re allowed to breed with no restrictions. Calhoun and his associates conducted a long series of experiments to study the effects of over-crowding on anima…