Cooperative Bacteria Thrive

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"In nature, organisms often support each other in order to gain an advantage. However, this kind of cooperation appears to contradict the theory of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin: Why would organisms invest valuable resources to help others? Instead, they should rather use them for themselves, in order to win the evolutionary competition with other species. A new study has now solved this puzzle."

How does cooperation evolve? Researchers unravel why organisms frequently help each other