


The line varies because except in Petri dishes, niches are always changing. The wavy horizontal dashed line is the number of rules needed for niche optimization. Instead of the way conventional evolution theory usually uses population for the niche limit (carrying capacity) and measure of niche fill, a life form’s rule set is used. The diagram below illustrates the cycle of battles of niche succession. This occurs due to superior strategies, superior physical abilities, or both. Niche succession occurs when successful competition from one life form drives another life form out of the same niche. Application example: The epic battle of niche succession This makes solving long term problems like sustainability impossible. Large for-profit corporation has already won this epic battle on a globalĪs long as large for-profit corporations are dominant, the human system will exhibit short term behavior in general, since the goal of for-profit corporations is to maximize short term profits. The loser willĪdapt by becoming the equivalent of a servant or slave to the winner. The modern corporation (a memetic life form). The battle for niche succession that is going on right now between Homo The competitive exclusion principle applies to Kinds of competitive agent, which includes both genetic and memetic life forms. It is only because they have adapted, and are now Occupy the same niche, only one outcome is possible: One life form Principle stating that when two competing life forms attempt to The competitive exclusion principle is an ecological
