alt Hacker NewsGreat question. When people say outcompete it can certainly include violence but we’re talking about populations spread over continents over thousands of years. Factors like technology, fertility, adaptability, etc. are more what people mean when they said outcompete.
Usually with humans though it isn’t these factors that are important. It is the violence factor. Seems you can get by on inferior technology for hundreds of generations, until some superior tech group shows up.