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and why is it an important issue? In part because of the ecological stresses it causes, which results in less supply of resources in a given ecological niche.
by denkmoon 5y ago
and why is it an important issue? In part because of the ecological stresses it causes, which results in less supply of resources in a given ecological niche.
Seems entirely reasonable to hypothesise the cause of aggression being related to this. That's not something they tested, merely a proposed hypothesis.
- robbedpeter 5y agoIt's a convenient hypothesis, given the ubiquity of climate change impacts, but also a lazy one, like blaming the aggression on something equally as prevalent and relevant to the situation, like chimp genetics. The hypothesis is untestable absent some other specific assertions, and therefore unscientific.
- j_wtf_all_taken 5y agoAnd you have enough knowledge on the subject matter so this can be seen as an educated guess, or are you just throwing some good-knowing words around to see what sticks?
- denkmoon 5y agoTestability and a better understanding of how resource limitations impact intraspecific competition is one of the big questions of community ecology. Sorry, sometimes the convenient hypothesis is a good one. It's just hard to test, since we cannot spin up Earth 2. That's one of the hard parts of ecology.