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Am I wrong in thinking that a majority of extinct species are gone for exactly the same reason (insufficient adaptability)?
by bcook 11y ago
Am I wrong in thinking that a majority of extinct species are gone for exactly the same reason (insufficient adaptability)?
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoOr extinction events
- nwatson 11y agoE.g. competition with people.
- goldenkey 11y agoSame thing happened between populations. Competition of hunter gatherers with farmers. People suck :-/
- evincarofautumn 11y agoWell, totalitarian farmers. Humans cultivated crops for a long time here and there before we got the bright idea to put the entire world under the plough.
- danieltillett 11y agoWell the choice was let your children die of starvation or farm more land. I know which one I would have taken.
- evincarofautumn 11y agoYeah, but unfortunately we didn’t account for the fundamental rule of ecology: more food, more population. The world population grows every year because we produce more food every year. Food is what the new people are made of. Somewhat counterintuitively, this is perfectly compatible with the continued existence of starving people.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoThat's nonsense. Feeding people doesn't make them have children. IT keeps them from dying of starvation.
- goldenkey 11y agoIncreasing food production causes increases in population. It causes more people to starve because it is ultimately unsustainable.
- bcook 11y agoInsufficient adaptability to extinction events. ;) But seriously, I must be missing something. The phrase seems overly generic.