> What did all this amount to? Neither “Rat City” nor “Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery” seems quite sure. In the preface to the former, Ramsden and Adams explicitly say t

> What did all this amount to? Neither “Rat City” nor “Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery” seems quite sure. In the preface to the former, Ramsden and Adams explicitly say that they are not going to “evaluate the merit” of Calhoun’s work. In the epilogue to the latter, Dugatkin tries to explain why this work has “fallen off the map.” His explanation largely has to do with shifting norms in academia. The study of population dynamics and behavior, he writes, has “changed radically since Calhoun undertook his experiments.” These are extraordinary statements about the scientific value of Calhoun's work, coming from the 3 people in the world who are presumably now the best acquainted with Calhoun's work and have gone through his archived papers and all followup research etc.