Tuesday, August 24, 2010

New study questions one of Darwin's assumptions

And no, they haven't proposed an Intelligent Designer...

Charles Darwin may have been wrong when he argued that competition was the major driving force of evolution.

He imagined a world in which organisms battled for supremacy and only the fittest survived.

But new research identifies the availability of "living space", rather than competition, as being of key importance for evolution.

Findings question the old adage of "nature red in tooth and claw".


Read more here.

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