Comments by "geemy" (@geemy9675) on "The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment" video.
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then the super villain takes the experience to next level and releases the super evolved bacteria crafted for 33 years to kill 99% of humanity and help human race evolve from the 1% survivors.
by the way, this experiment helps understand how aging, dying is a desirable characteristic for any species. your "goal" from a DNA perspective is
1/ multiply and have an offspring to let your race survive
2/ mutate, be the living experiment to test these mutations positive or negative effect you and your offspring survival
this means once you have given life to your offspring and raised it, you are not useful anymore except your ability to help the next generations, and you are using resources that could be used by them. this aging, eating less and eventually dying..
we evolve much slower than bacterias but we have added culture/knowledge/science to the legacy we leave to the next generations and we are progressively freeing ourselves from the environment pressure by reducing infant/youth mortality to a very low rate, wether it's from disease, starvation, predation, so our DNA evolution is probably going slow down a lot, but the amount of knowledge/information we leave to the next generation gross exponentially..the only mutations that are selected are those that make individuals have more children, which has always been the case. are we eventually.
humanity has to reinvent itself regarding what's ou goal besides surviving.
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