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This is generally true, though occasionally parasitoid relationships are selected for (where there's a fitness advantage to killing off the host). Though these
by rectangletangle 12y ago
This is generally true, though occasionally parasitoid relationships are selected for (where there's a fitness advantage to killing off the host). Though these relationships typically only occur with an r selected host (many offspring, low probability of survival). Thankfully however humans are very heavily K selected (few offspring, high probability of survival).