<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>The Predator Principle — The Cancer of Evolution · Nirodha Collective</title><link>https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle</link><description>Provocative, claim-linked dispatches challenging destructive extraction.</description><language>en</language><item><title>The strongest objection to our thesis</title><link>https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/strongest-objection.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/strongest-objection.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:12:53 GMT</pubDate><description>Predators are not useless. Anyone claiming that is making it too easy. Status E. Predator effects are context-dependent; they can stabilise or destabilise.</description></item><item><title>Complexity did not arise through struggle alone</title><link>https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/cooperation-built-complexity.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/cooperation-built-complexity.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:39:49 GMT</pubDate><description>Life&#39;s greatest transitions required integration and conflict control. Status E. Cooperation alone does not guarantee stability; competition remains part of evolutionary processes.</description></item><item><title>Predators act even when they do not kill</title><link>https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/fear-without-killing.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/fear-without-killing.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:25:38 GMT</pubDate><description>The ecology of fear begins before the attack. Status E. A single empirical result in songbirds; not a universal effect size for all species.</description></item><item><title>Five signs that a system is becoming predatory</title><link>https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/five-signs.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/five-signs.html</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:07 GMT</pubDate><description>The teeth are not decisive. The structure is. Status I. This four-of-five threshold is a systems hypothesis that requires validation.</description></item><item><title>A predator is not a model for the future</title><link>https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/the-old-emergency.html</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://Mycelorium.github.io/predator-principle/posts/the-old-emergency.html</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:22:21 GMT</pubDate><description>An ancient survival strategy was elevated into a worldview. Status I. Interpretation: ecological predation and the defined system pattern are not identical.</description></item></channel></rss>