Floral economies

James Perkins; Rod Peakall

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.074

Floral economies

James Perkins^*, Rod Peakall

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Biology and economics are surprisingly similar disciplines. At their core, both fields are the study of competitive interactions for scarce resources and the consequences of those interactions over time. Perhaps the first person to notice this similarity was Charles Darwin, who credited his reading of the influential economist Thomas Robert Malthus with catalysing his understanding of natural selection as the driving force of evolution. While it may not have been recognised at the time, this was not the only area of Darwin's thinking to parallel economic concepts.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	R640-R644
Journal	Current Biology
Volume	32
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.04.074
Publication status	Published - 20 Jun 2022

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