predation

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• The nonprofit Wild Animal Initiative, for example, believes we should reduce all kinds of animal suffering, even, perhaps, suffering due to predation.

• A similar process of political facsimile, this time mimicking QAnon’s tendency to baselessly allege sexual predation, is also occurring worldwide.

• Flattening his alleged predation into SVU tropes steers us away from the question of why 17-year-olds make dating profiles for old men and put them online with cute selfies.

• One of Darwin’s great insights was the idea that everyday events—small mutations, predation, competition—could slowly change species, given time.

• Catnip probably didn’t evolve in response to predation from ancient mosquitoes or fruit flies, he says.

• Starvation, disease, war, and predation were common threats for a majority of our evolutionary history.

• WGA is classified as a lectin—a term for a protein produced by an organism to protect itself from predation.

• This “double whammy” of predation and competition enables jellyfish to cripple a food chain by essentially nibbling at its ankles.

• The whole thing combines a French disregard for sexual predation with our own culture of uptight sensationalism.

• The transition from peace to predation therefore depends on the growth of technical knowledge and the use of tools.

• The conventions of the business world have grown up under the selective surveillance of this principle of or parasitism.