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The best phrasing I've heard is something like this: the more closely adapted a system is to one environment, the less adapted it can be to other environments.
by andrewflnr 5y ago
The best phrasing I've heard is something like this: the more closely adapted a system is to one environment, the less adapted it can be to other environments. So by being very closely adapted to the steady state environment, it cannot be adapted to disrupted environments.
- TrispusAttucks 5y agoThank you. This is some great insight. I remnds me that humans are a generalist species but as we further create a specialist environment we inherit the [1] instability in specialization. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalist_and_specialist_species https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalist_and_specialist_sp...