Abstract
Despite its central place in ecological and evolutionary theories, the phenomenon of competition has seen many of its facets wax and wane over the past few decades. Two papers 1 Day T. Competition and the effect of spatial resource heterogeneity on evolutionary diversification. Am. Nat. 2000; 155: 790-803 Crossref PubMed Scopus (84) Google Scholar , 2 Case T.J. Taper M.L. Interspecific competition, environmental gradients, gene flow, and the coevolution of species borders. Am. Nat. 2000; 155: 583-605 Crossref PubMed Scopus (363) Google Scholar just published in The American Naturalist might well rekindle research on the phenomenon of ‘character displacement’ – the observation that species have evolved to be less like one another when coexisting (sympatry) than when isolated (allopatry).
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