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Competition among species is now commonly accepted as one of the chief forces in evolution. But according to Simberloff, a biologist at Florida State University, its impact has been exaggerated.
Simberloff does not challenge Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. But Darwin's notion of natural selection concerned competition within particular...