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>Examples of J curves that aren't S curves?

Reindeer population growth in Alaska.

That's absolutely an S-curve. Any animal population will eventually run out of resources.

Wait a few decades and it will probably plateau at, if not shrink from, a maximum.

Dark Energy astrophysics.

You seem confident an "ultraviolet catastrophe"-like scenario won't play out there, too.

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