Why life is really about survival of the fairest, not fittest
Nature can be deadly competitive, but there are often plants and animals that work together, says author Kristin Ohlson. They are lessons we need to learn.
Nature, red in tooth and claw - Alfred Tennyson, 1850
Tennyson’s much-quoted poem In Memoriam was a moving tribute to friend and fellow poet Arthur Hallam who had recently died, but it also spoke to the loss of another giant, the dinosaur, whose newly excavated fossils had gripped Victorian England.
