Ever wondered whether prey always outcompete predators (aka life-dinner principle?). Turns out when prey are numerous, predators edge ahead in the evolutionary arms race - download paper here: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
Asymmetric arms races between predators and prey: a tug of war between the life–dinner principle and the rare-enemy principle | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological SciencesAntagonistic co-evolution can be asymmetric, where one species lags behind another.
Asymmetry in a predator–prey context is expressed by the ‘life–dinner principle’,
a classic informal model predictin...royalsocietypublishing.org