Remember those speeded-up films of agar-filled petri dishes with colonies of bacteria and fungi expanding and competing, rather like ripples on a pond if a handful of stones is thrown in all at once? If you are a gardener, have you noticed that there is a new major weed almost every year, just as your previous year's bête noire has been eradicated? These events are similar to the behaviour of bird
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