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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).