I have to prepare a big presentation on my research and ended up reading about the ecology of the amazon, I found this bit. I couldn't fit it on twitter so I decided to put it here...
"a situation that can only be likened in human terms to a darkened room full of jostling people among whom, or else lurking in cupboards and recesses which open on all sides, are a dozen or so maniacal homicides armed with knives" (William Hamilton 1979, on the complex relationship between figs (Ficus spp.) and fig wasps (family Agaonidae).
"a situation that can only be likened in human terms to a darkened room full of jostling people among whom, or else lurking in cupboards and recesses which open on all sides, are a dozen or so maniacal homicides armed with knives" (William Hamilton 1979, on the complex relationship between figs (Ficus spp.) and fig wasps (family Agaonidae).