Study: Cooperation, not struggle for survival, drives speciation, evolution

Study: Cooperation, not struggle for survival, drives speciation, evolution Bern, Switzerland (UPI) May 12, 2016 - New empirical evidence supports theoretical research that suggests cooperation - not competition - is the main driver of speciation and evolution. The theory was developed by Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, an associate professor of ecology and biodiversity at Tomsk State University in Russia. It was inspired by the failure of Gause's principle of competitive exclusion to explain what was act ... more

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