In 1974 Robert May, an Australian physicist turned ecologist, studied the discrete-time logistic equation as a model for population dynamics. He noticed that unexpected bifurcations occurred and that the asymptotic behaviour could even be chaotic. So long-term predictions can be impossible even with a simple deterministic model. May’s article was one of those that launched “chaos theory”.
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Bacaër, N. (2011). Chaotic populations (1974). In A Short History of Mathematical Population Dynamics (pp. 133–140). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-115-8_24
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