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In the future, metaphors will be even thinner because bloggers keep stretching them...

• joeyo 17y ago
  I'm not sure if it's a metaphor. Normally, predators will eat the smaller, younger and sicker animals, leaving the larger and stronger ones to survive. So there is pressure for prey animals to get larger to escape predators and pressure for predators to get larger in response. (Of course there is also pressure to remain small to reduce metabolic needs, and the size of the organism is as such dictated by the balance of these and other forces.) However, hunting inverts this pyramid, culling the largest and most attractive individuals and leading to the survival of the smallest and least showy. And lo and behold it seems to be happening: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE50B73320090113 http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE50B73320090113