The Red Queen Hypothesis

[Full Circle]

I found this to be a good read. If as a species you don't evolve and adapt you become extinct.

"Biologists quote Lewis Carroll when arguing that survival is a constant struggle to adapt and evolve. Is that true, or do groups die out because they experience a run of bad luck? Charles Marshall and Tiago Quental of UC Berkeley tested these hypotheses using mammals that arose and died out (or are now dying out) in the past 66 million years, and found that it's not luck but failure to adapt to a deteriorating environment."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-06-red-queen.html#jCp

I particularly found this statement very interesting:

"In fact our data suggest that biological systems may never be in equilibrium at all, with groups expanding and contracting under persistent and rather, geologically speaking, rapid change" he said.

[thesummerqueen]

Damn and I was just reading something about how a certain species of frog was in danger due to the fact that the environment is very likely going to change much faster than it can adapt in the next 100 years due to Global Warming.

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Damn and I was just reading something about how a certain species of frog was in danger due to the fact that the environment is very likely going to change much faster than it can adapt in the next 100 years due to Global Warming.

Adapt or die out.

[Silver]

Religion seems to be hanging on to survival quite tenaciously despite its refusal to adapt and evolve.

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Religion seems to be hanging on to survival quite tenaciously despite its refusal to adapt and evolve.

I almost made that same comment Maelstrom but the more I thought about it I came to the conclusion that religions, as created and modified by man, are adapting their stories as science progresses. Almost everytime science makes a new discovery existing religions spin the new information so as to make it seem like it still fits their narrative. It adapts it's message.