Monarch butterflies help explain why parasites harm hosts
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 - 22:07
in Biology & Nature
Altizer with monarch. It’s a paradox that has confounded evolutionary biologists since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859: Since parasites depend on their hosts for survival, why do they harm them?
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