An alternative view offered by Richard Dawkins is of predation as a form of competition: the genes of both the predator and prey are competing for the body (or 'survival machine') of the prey organism. This is best understood in the context of the gene centered view of evolution. Another manner in which predation and competition are connected is throughout intraguild predation. Intraguild predators are those that kill and eat other predators of different species at the same trophic level, and thus that are potential competitors.
Intraguild species consumer other species within? Who proposes the concept of the "survival machine?" The argument of the "survival machines" proposes that what two species are competing for the same genes? Intraguild species may try to consume each other because they are? Who described predation by describing competing genes within the predator? To what part of the prey does Richard Dawkins refer to as the "survival machine"? What are intraguild predators? Which version of evolutionary theory is easiest to use when explaining predation as competition? What term is used to decribe predators that prey on their own competition?