ANTHROP 3HI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Coevolution, Parasitism, Evolutionarily Stable Strategy

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Anthropology
• Course: ANTHROP 3HI3
• Professor: Priscilla Medeiros

Document Summary

It is something that can be exploited: but other survival machines can fight back, predator/prey: Antelopes: lions want to eat an antelope but an antelope has other plans for its own body. This is not usually regarded as competition for a resource, but logically, it is. The resource is meat" lions want it for food and antelopes want it to house muscles and or their organs. The two uses for this resource are mutually incompatible, and so, there is a conflict of interest. But c is also my rival, and c is also b"s rival. So by killing b, i am potentially doing a favor to c by removing one of his rivals as well. It might be better to let b live so that b and c can engage in combat instead. The moral of this is that there is no obvious merit in trying to kill rivals.