Business
6 patterns in this domain
“What was foreign becomes essential”
3/7 frontierEndosymbiosis
About 2 billion years ago, an archaeal cell engulfed an alpha- proteobacterium.
“It's believable because it's expensive”
3/7 frontierHonest Signaling
In 1975, Israeli biologist Amotz Zahavi proposed a radical idea that most evolutionary biologists initially rejected: the peacock's tail is not an accident of runaway sexual selection but a deliberate handicap that proves fitness.
“To grow, you must shed what protected you”
3/7 frontierMolting
A lobster's shell is made of chitin — a rigid polymer that cannot expand.
“I give what you need, you give what I need”
3/7 frontierSymbiotic Exchange
Roughly two billion years ago, a large cell engulfed a small bacterium — but didn't digest it.
“Burn almost nothing — survive almost anything”
3/7 frontierTorpor
A hummingbird burns calories faster than almost any animal on Earth — its heart beats 1,200 times per minute, and it must eat constantly to survive.
“Let the inspector inside — both of you benefit”
3/7 frontierTrusted Privileged Access
On coral reefs around the world, cleaner wrasse fish establish "cleaning stations" — specific spots on the reef where larger fish, including predators that could easily eat them, come to be cleaned.