Natural Selection and the Outcome of Competition
- 1 July 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 89 (847) , 235-240
- https://doi.org/10.1086/281887
Abstract
This study suggests that when two small Tribolium populations compete for the same resource and one of them is eliminated after a few generations, natural selection resulting from competition between the two is not likely to have had appreciable effects in determining the outcome. This should not be interpreted as evidence that random genetic changes taking place during this period cannot affect the outcome of competition, nor obviously, that natural selection resulting from interspecies competition may not be important in evolution.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Interspecies Competition in Populations of Trilobium confusum Duval and Trilobium castaneum HerbstEcological Monographs, 1948
- EVOLUTION IN MENDELIAN POPULATIONSGenetics, 1931