Behavioural genetics: evolutionary fingerprint of the 'invisible hand'.

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A recent study of the foraging gene in Drosophila illustrates a long-standing economic maxim that competition favors rare strategies. Two foraging alleles, rovers and sitters, each have higher fitness when rare--but only when competition is strong.

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