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Doesn't that just mean we'll evolve into a new environment?
by dgzl 7y ago
Doesn't that just mean we'll evolve into a new environment?
- trickstra 7y agoLikely yes. In 100 thousand years.
- toasterlovin 7y agoMore like 1000 years, but still: much longer than is useful to anybody alive now.
- dgzl 7y agoCan I use this excuse with climate change?
- trickstra 7y agoWhat do you mean? Climate change is about to submerge thousands of square kilometers under the sea in 30 years. Millions of people displaced. Your children and their children will not be able to visit some of the places we see in our tourist guides today: https://i2.wp.com/vietnaminsider.vn/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Southern-Vietnam-could-all-but-disappear.jpg?resize=750%2C523&ssl=1 https://i2.wp.com/vietnaminsider.vn/wp-content/uploads/2019/... https://i2.wp.com/vietnaminsider.vn/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Thailand-projection.jpg?resize=750%2C430&ssl=1 https://i2.wp.com/vietnaminsider.vn/wp-content/uploads/2019/...
- pfdietz 7y agoA process that involves one premature death (or, at least, failure to reproduce) per copy in the population of the gene that needs to be replaced. Evolution, the grand vivisectionist.
- achenatx 7y agoonly if the evolutionary pressure kills you before you can have children.