Tuesday, April 28, 2020

The struggle for existence

We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence. . . . Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found it so - than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. Yet unless it be thoroughly engrained in the mind, I am convinced that the whole economy of nature, with every fact on distribution, rarity, abundance, extinction, and variation, will be dimly seen or quite misunderstood.
                                                    Charles Darwin, The Origin of the Species



 

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