Quote by Chuck Wendig

“Eliminate one species, and another increases in number to take its place”

— Kim Sterelny

“The rules that govern competition between species are (and must be) very different from the rules that govern competition within species.”

— Daniel Quinn

“As Darwin discovered, competition is important for the survival of our species. It may not be the competition with others but the competition within…

— Debasish Mridha

“Species that struggle to adapt to survive will become extinct”

— Charles Darwin

“Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive almost anything short of a global…

— Daniel Quinn

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

— Daniel Quinn

A new species develops if a population which has become geographically isolated from its parental species acquires during this period of isolation characters which…

— Ernst Mayr

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

— Carl Sagan

“Struggle was the explanation behind all the most troubling biological mysteries: species differentiation, species extinction, and species transmutation. Struggle explained everything”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

A species consists of a group of populations which replace each other geographically or ecologically and of which the neighboring ones integrate or hybridise…

— Ernst Mayr

Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other…

— Paul Hawken

“As important as the dimensions of rivalry is whether rivals compete on the same dimensions. When all or many competitors aim to meet the…

— Michael E. Porter