by Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan This piece was originally published in Home! A Bioregional Reader, edited by Van Andruss, Christopher Plant, Judith Plant, and Eleanor Wright, New Society Publishers, copyright 1990. Competition in which the strong wins has been given a good deal more press than cooperation. But certain specifically weak organisms have survived in the long run by being part of collectives, while the so-called strong ones, never learning the trick of cooperation, have been dumped on to […]