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Ben
@benersing
Has the system (evolution) created within itself a creature that can stop the system’s influence on itself? Meta, ik. Serious question though.
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Thomas
@aviationdoctor.eth
Humans probably qualify as such a creature, IMO. We’re still subject to random mutations, but not really to natural selection anymore as our medical prowesses and abundant lifestyles shield us from the ruthless selection process that other species are still subject to.
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SydneyJason
@sydneyjason
Fun to ponder as I’m in the Galapagos and just visited to Darwin center today. Sidebar answer: scientists eradicated an invasive species here by introducing lady bugs. The lady bugs only ate the eggs of the pest. And when all the eggs were gone, the ladybugs quietly died out…
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Rivir
@rivir
If you zoom out, artificial selection is still natural selection. The anthropocentric idea that humans selecting for traits in other species is presumptuous of the fact that our free will is both true & significant/meaningful, and that we are the lens through which the rest of the world is observed.
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Chris Smith
@metapriest
Most processes are self terminating eventually.
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