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This tropical plant builds isolated ‘apartments’ to prevent battles among the aggressive ant tenants it relies on for survival

  • Written by Guillaume Chomicki, Professor of Evolutionary Biology, Durham University
imageWhen aggressive ant species come in contact, deadly conflicts ensueG. Chomicki

In the middle of the South Pacific, a group of Fijian plants have solved a problem that has long puzzled scientists: How can an organism cooperate with multiple partners that are in turn competing for the same resources? The solution turns out to be simple –...

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