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1873:Stability and Complexity in Model Ecosystems
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868:Zoological Society of London
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3008:Australian Knights Bachelor
1789:"Life and Honorary Fellows"
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2372:Marquess of Northampton
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972:Oxford University Press
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224:Judith Feiner, Lady May
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2080:59th President of the
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686:Natural History Museum
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2022:Sydney Morning Herald
1961:at Wikimedia Commons
1690:"Robert McCredie May"
1187:Nature Communications
904:postdoctoral research
778:County of Oxfordshire
734:combat climate change
717:Criticism of Ig Nobel
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1740:"APS Member History"
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626:Princeton University
618:University of Sydney
546:chemical engineering
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494:University of Oxford
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486:University of Sydney
340:University of Oxford
202:University of Sydney
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2032:Government offices
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1152:1994Natur.371...65T
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603:theoretical ecology
599:natural communities
595:population dynamics
568:Career and research
562:theoretical physics
550:theoretical physics
544:, where he studied
326:Theoretical ecology
141:Robert McCredie May
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3038:British ecologists
2895:John B. Goodenough
2682:Venki Ramakrishnan
2631:Sir Michael Atiyah
2599:Alan Lloyd Hodgkin
2551:Henry Hallett Dale
2150:Viscount Brouncker
1928:The New York Times
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1675:The London Gazette
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1636:The London Gazette
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