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It is shown that the ordinary differential equation commonly used to describe competing species are compatible with any dynamical behavior provided the number of species in very large.
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Smale, S. On the differential equations of species in competition. J. Math. Biology 3, 5–7 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00307854
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00307854