Sex and space destabilize intransitive competition within and between species.

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Organisms ranging from bacteria and corals to plants and vertebrates can form intransitive competitive networks, in which coexistence can be maintained because no one species or genotype is superior to all others. However, in the simplest case with three competing types, the long-term outcome may not be so clear if two of the three represent the ends of a continuous heritable trait distribution within one...

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