Biology Explains How the Victims Are the First To evolve.

Biology lessons to understand war.

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Attackers and prey are found in any relationship entailing the biological evolution on Earth or simply the smaller scale relationships in our lives. In nature, we can see that once the predators have emerged, the victims have started to build all kinds of shields like shells, spines or poison to protect themselves, while the attackers have also developed more attack weapons such as strong jaws, claws or sharp teeth. In time, these weapons have started been using in other scopes besides killing the prey, directing their attack towards those of their species while competing for resources, reproduction or social status.

Unfortunately, this sounds all familiar to us humans because many of the structures that have emerged back in history, millions of years ago, remained and evolved in diversity until today, affecting all kinds of species.

So then, once the prey starts to adapt and evolve, the attacker becomes better skilled, and its adaptation enables the prey’s adaptation in turn. Hence, both parties require adaptation and continuous evolution to remain in the prey-predator relationship. The Red Queen from “Alice in Wonderland” beautifully puts it: “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.”