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I found the press release pretty confused/confusing. It starts by saying there's little evidence for competition affecting evolution, which sounds like nonsense
by anonymous_sorry 4y ago
I found the press release pretty confused/confusing. It starts by saying there's little evidence for competition affecting evolution, which sounds like nonsense.
I peeked at the paper's abstract which seems to be talking about "macroevolution". Looks like this refers to larger scale trends on the level of clades rather than competition within species or between more closely related species.
- hgsgm 4y agoWhat evidence is there for competition causing extinction, the topic of the article? The article is about species driving out unrelated species by evolving to be better competitors (not invading from elsewhere), not a species evolving due to internal competition among individuals.
- anonymous_sorry 4y agoYes, that's what the paper appears to be about. I was saying I thought that the press release didn't express this very clearly. But if you got it perhaps I just read it badly.