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I dont see why that would be true. The liklihood of adaption depends on the details of the method. Not everything is easily adapted out of. Humans have been sh
by bawolff 3y ago
I dont see why that would be true. The liklihood of adaption depends on the details of the method. Not everything is easily adapted out of.
Humans have been shooting each other with guns, and before that bows and arrows for a long time, and yet evolution hasn't provided us with fire-arm resitance yet.
- BobaFloutist 3y agoHumans take a much much longer time to evolve than bacteria (and much longer than we've been shooting each other), and your average human doesn't die to gunfire before they get to reproduce. I'm sure if you put humans in an environment with a major chance of dying to gunfire before they reproduced for hundreds of millions of years or whatever we'd start to develop thicker bones or something - or just earlier and faster reproduction.
- acover 3y agoAnother example: boiling kills most bacteria, very few have evolved to survive it.
- arrowleaf 3y agoI'm assuming the intended application of this is to kill bacteria colonizing a biological host. In order for that to work, the treatment needs to be selective in what it kills. If human/animal/plant cells have any mechanism to avoid being killed by the antibiotic, eventually the bacteria will adapt them.