How Frankenstein saved humankind from probable extinction, Dartmouth-UC Merced study

(Dartmouth College) In Mary Shelley's novel, 'Frankenstein,' Victor Frankenstein saved humankind from the probability of extinction, according to a new study by Dartmouth-University of California, Merced, to be published in BioScience on Friday, Oct. 28. The study examines how the novel is rooted in a fundamental principle of biology, competitive exclusion.