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mafia hypothesis

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.55 in modern English

Syllables
mafi-a hy-poth-e-sis
IPA
31
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A hypothesis that posits that host birds accept brood parasite eggs and chicks to avoid retaliatory destruction of their nests by the parasite, establishing a coevolutionary equilibrium where host compliance is maintained through parasite aggression.

Inflected Forms

the mafia hypothesis (canonical)

Questions

What does mafia hypothesis mean?
A hypothesis that posits that host birds accept brood parasite eggs and chicks to avoid retaliatory destruction of their nests by the parasite, establishing a coevolutionary equilibrium where host compliance is maintained through parasite aggression.

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