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For the lowly Arctic lemming, life is cruel. On the wide-open tundra, they are nature’s carryout meal, the Lay’s potato chip of an unforgiving habitat — no predator can eat just one. In a flash before ...

"When their population grows too large, lemmings jump off cliffs in groups and commit suicide."This story is still often used ...

You’ve almost certainly heard the idea, and probably used it as a metaphor: lemmings, those small Arctic rodents, are famous for supposedly committing mass suicide, blindly following one another off ...

MY attention having recently been drawn to the question of the migration of that little Norwegian rodent the lemming, as a serious obstacle to the theory of natural selection, and hence to evolution ...

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