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RE: The Future

February 16, 2016 at 12:08 am

(February 15, 2016 at 8:37 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Slowing down reproduction -- which would be required with the great expansion of life-span lest we court overpopulation -- also reduces the variability of the gene-pool, all other things being equal.

This is why bacteria evolve faster than do insects, why insects evolve faster than do fish, and so on.

Yep. And, that which doesn't move forward stagnates and dies.

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