Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

competitive exclusion

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.63 in modern English

Syllables: com-pet-i-tive ex-clu-sion
IPA

38

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

6

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The principle that states that two species who are very similar, and compete for the same resources, cannot coexist indefinitely, as the one with the slight advantage will outperform the other and eventually drive it into extinction.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"2016, Kaj-Kolja Kleineberg & Marián Boguñá, Competition between global and local online social networks, Nature In ecology theory, the principle of competitive exclusion states that multiple species in competition for the same resource cannot coexist, as even the slightest advantage of one species over the other is successively amplified; a mechanism referred to as “rich get richer” or preferential attachment. This eventually leads to the extinction of the inferior species."

Etymology

Coined by Russian biologist Georgy Gause.

Usage

Inflected Forms

competitive exclusions (plural)

Questions

What does competitive exclusion mean?: The principle that states that two species who are very similar, and compete for the same resources, cannot coexist indefinitely, as the one with the slight advantage will outperform the other and eventually drive it into extinction.
Where does competitive exclusion come from?: Coined by Russian biologist Georgy Gause.

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