The Competitive Exclusion Principle¶
Hardin, G. (1960). The Competitive Exclusion Principle. Science, 131(3409), 1292-1297.
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- Competition
This sourceStates the competitive-exclusion principle as a general law — complete competitors cannot coexist — generalizing the empirical paramecium result into the transferable structural result imported into business and attention-market reasoning.
- Monopoly
- In biology and ecology it is ecological dominance — one species monopolizing a niche, one predator monopolizing a food source — with the "no close substitute" condition read as the niche-overlap test.
This sourceEstablishes that two species competing for the same limiting resource cannot stably coexist; the niche-overlap basis for reading ecological dominance as monopoly.
- In biology and ecology it is ecological dominance — one species monopolizing a niche, one predator monopolizing a food source — with the "no close substitute" condition read as the niche-overlap test.
- Supersession
- In ecology, competitive exclusion in a stable community is the non-declarative anchor: when one species displaces another in a shared niche, the predecessor is the excluded species, the successor is the excluding one, the role-identity is the niche filled before and after, and the time-asymmetry holds — the displacement runs one way under the prevailing conditions.
This sourceTwo species competing for the same limiting resource cannot stably coexist, so one displaces the other from the niche.
- In ecology, competitive exclusion in a stable community is the non-declarative anchor: when one species displaces another in a shared niche, the predecessor is the excluded species, the successor is the excluding one, the role-identity is the niche filled before and after, and the time-asymmetry holds — the displacement runs one way under the prevailing conditions.
- Winner Take All Market
- In ecology, competitive exclusion amplifies slight competitive advantages into near-total exclusion of subordinate species from preferred niches — the same convex-concentration shape on a biological rather than a market substrate.
This sourceStates that two species competing for a single limiting resource cannot coexist, so a slight competitive advantage amplifies into near-total exclusion — the ecological convex-concentration analogue.
- In ecology, competitive exclusion amplifies slight competitive advantages into near-total exclusion of subordinate species from preferred niches — the same convex-concentration shape on a biological rather than a market substrate.
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