‘Publish or perish’ evolutionary pressures shape scientific publishing, for better and worse
- Written by Thomas Morgan, Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Institute of Human Origins, Arizona State University
While developing his theory of natural selection, Charles Darwin was horrified by a group of wasps that lay their eggs within the bodies of caterpillars, with the larvae eating their hosts alive from the inside-out.
Darwin didn’t judge the wasps. Instead, he was troubled by what they revealed about evolution. They showed natural selection to...