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If you had a bacteria and its descendant thousands of years younger - the younger would wtfpn its predecessor. The same applies to pests and their targets. The
by JanezStupar 14y ago
If you had a bacteria and its descendant thousands of years younger - the younger would wtfpn its predecessor.
The same applies to pests and their targets. There is a continuous arms race between attacker and victim. Any combination of older variations of same creatures would play out in favor of younger creature/plant.
I read somewhere that it is pretty much the same between sexes. A man of 2000 years ago would possibly be unable to impregnate todays woman (e.g.: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090908125137.htm)
- JoeAltmaier 14y agoBut there may also be a rock-paper-scissors effect at play. We may be in a 'rock' phase of bacterial life; uncover some old 'paper' and maybe the younger strain would find itself in trouble? There is no inexorable refinement force in effect in natural selection; simple organisms are selected for their current environment with no plan of building complex defenses against ancient enemies or any such.
- sliverstorm 14y agoIf the bacteria are locked under the ice for thousands of years, that arms race doesn't occur, at least between humans and bacteria.
- JanezStupar 14y agoWell they were left in 1945 with state of the art V2 missiles.