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A simple time-delay model of laboratory insect populations which postulates a ‘humped’ relationship between future adult recruitment and current adult population gives good quantitative agreement with Nicholson's classic blowfly data and explains the appearance of narrow ‘discrete’ generations in cycling populations.
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Gurney, W., Blythe, S. & Nisbet, R. Nicholson's blowflies revisited. Nature 287, 17–21 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/287017a0
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