“Darwin's dogmatic belief in the 'struggle for life' in nature was based on anecdotal evidence rather than true research. For instance, he believed that as a pack of wolves pursued its prey, the certainty that the fastest predator would necessarily get the lion's share of the proceeds of the chase meant that nature would select the strongest strain for the genetic pool of the future. What Darwin didn't know was that wolves are not competitive with one another, they are collaborative (like early humanity) and the wolf that brings down the quarry shares its prey with the rest of the pack.
“Also, different packs tend not to compete with other packs. A study in Minnesota found there was a two-kilometre 'no man's land' between the territories of two adjacent packs, where neither pack hunted, with the result that deer tended to find refuge in these no-go zones. Nor was it necessarily the weaker victims which were picked off by the wolves: often they tended to go for the healthier animals, which of course had the result of encouraging healthy growth in the predators.”
– Unnatural Selection, October Press, 1993
