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So you predict extinction instead of adaptation or rather speciation (new cell lines resilient in a new environment which form a distinctly new genome)?
by achillesheels 7y ago
So you predict extinction instead of adaptation or rather speciation (new cell lines resilient in a new environment which form a distinctly new genome)?
- btilly 7y agoOn current projections of ocean acidification, extinction is inevitable for this type of crab. The only news here is that they have actually been measured to be impacted at rates that they were predicted to be impacted. The overall conclusion of what will happen is not changed.
- achillesheels 7y agoThis is where I would disagree with your belief that mutations are caused by replication rates rather than environmental feedback responses. The bandwidth of environmental sampling of larger species such as these crabs permits greater adaptability in near-future generations. I speak specifically to metabolizing de novo proteins in this novel environment which promote cellular replication stability, ie survival, eg enteric coatings. I think you presuppose climate change is a disaster in your extinction judgment rather than a transient response to human industrialization.