The competitive edge: Dietary competition played a key role in the evolution of early primates
Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 02:10
in Biology & Nature
Since Darwin first laid out the basic principles of evolution by means of natural selection, the role of competition for food as a driving force in shaping and shifting a species' biology to outcompete its adversaries has played center stage. So important is the notion of competition between species, that it is viewed as a key selective force that resulted in the split of the lineage leading to modern humans from that of our early ape ancestors.