
Human Brits are banding together to help the red squirrels fight off the foreign invasion [Friends of the Red Squirrel] but the prospects are dim. It looks like curtains for the reds.
This clearly has something to do with evolution. When one species out competes another and drives it to extinction we think of this as part of the process of evolution. But which process is it? It doesn't really count as natural selection, strictly defined, since that process involves differential success of individuals within a population. What do we call it when two species go head-to-head and only one survives?
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