Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:33:38 UTC No. 16621888

>>16621874
actually, the younger they have kids the quicker the evolution. this is why you can see bacteria evolve in an afternoon with a microscope

Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:34:59 UTC No. 16621891

>>16621888
The shorter their lifespan the younger they have kids

Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:37:06 UTC No. 16621895

>>16621891
not true

Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:48:03 UTC No. 16621900

>>16621888
This, you can have insects that breed multiple times, but the rapid growth to imago is key. My mosqs families might as well be islands of sparsely related species, and they're relatively recent in terms of insect evolution.
They can live quite long, but the more rapid species are the ones with melanized mutants, and anopholine mosqs modify their own ribosome copy number, something an animal who invests in long-lived cells and their young wouldn't do.
They don't have DNA methylation, they don't adapt to an environment within a generation, the epigenetics are all transgenerational systems for immune response or directing developmental stages. Rapid adaptation between generations (hell, between laying periods according to an australian paper) instead of robustness. It's a strategy that seems to work.

Anonymous at Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:11:31 UTC No. 16622038

>>16621900
unironically an entomology friend just uploaded a good example of this in practice
https://youtu.be/woZPCnl88BU?t=420

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 02:23:54 UTC No. 16622143

>still believing in evolution

Not science.

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:18:10 UTC No. 16622176

>>16622143
>source in image
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/aug/23/highereducation.peopleinscience
>science fiction author and cosmologist
>talking about a hyperintelligent alien AI panspermia
>because the "big bang" he coined is statistically impossible
not science?

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:23:25 UTC No. 16622179

>>16621874
>still going off of darwin
Darwin is for high school students. Get a new fucking model, it's called punctuated equilibrium: Creature evolves, creature fills a role well enough, evolution stops. Disaster happens? Repeat cycle

Anonymous at Tue, 18 Mar 2025 03:58:22 UTC No. 16622202

>>16622179
>evolution stops
No it doesn’t

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 04:39:31 UTC No. 16624742

>>16621874
Check out squirrels some time. They are always in fast mode. Constantly looking out for predators at break-neck speeds. Squirrels live a life that is very fast in every aspect.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 05:13:28 UTC No. 16624758

>>16622176
Panspermia is most likely false but pseudo panspermia is a very robust conjecture with actual evidence backing it up. It also kinda disproves panspermia because organic compounds are randomly found throughout the universe so they're not rare at all. Earth was likely seeded with naturally formed organic compounds from which life arose and most likely did not develop life from scratch but neither was seeded with preexisting life. This still keeps life very rare but not one in a gajillion impossibly rare. Personally, I wouldn't be surprised if there was other life in the known universe but it's so rare that humans are the only intelligent life that exists.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 07:55:36 UTC No. 16624803

>>16621874
>Do biologists already know this or is this new?
that'a why biologists love fruitflies as their macroscopic model

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:48:22 UTC No. 16625684

>>16624803
Fruitfly lore should have it's own thread, lot to unpack there

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:11:30 UTC No. 16625918

>>16621874
Zero macroevolution in one species cannot be faster than zero macroevolution in another [all] species

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:38:08 UTC No. 16626230

>>16625918
>whales with legs
Did I scare you

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:57:52 UTC No. 16626474

>>16622143
Explain bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
I am listening.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:25:30 UTC No. 16626756

>>16621874
>if organism dies quickly
>so organism reproduces quickly too
>then organism accumulates more mutations (aka "evolution") over time

nigga thats common sense

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 17:28:02 UTC No. 16626759

>>16626756
>then *specimen* accumulates [...]

pardon

Anonymous at Mon, 24 Mar 2025 01:19:09 UTC No. 16627053

>>16626230
why would your fictional interpretations scare someone?

Anonymous at Mon, 24 Mar 2025 06:59:10 UTC No. 16627168

>>16621874
Of course its already known, its called r/K selection theory.

Anonymous at Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:22:03 UTC No. 16627172

>>16627053
Calling something fictional won’t make it stop existing

Anonymous at Mon, 24 Mar 2025 08:09:08 UTC No. 16627180

>>16622143
>40,000 noughts
How many stars are there? How many planets? I think if this number was right we would have found signs of life on other worlds by now.

Anonymous at Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:03:34 UTC No. 16629666

>>16621874
This is true but not the full answer. generation turnoever is significant but so rate of mutation, population size, envronmental factors...

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Mar 2025 16:02:31 UTC No. 16630956

>>16622143
We have already demonstrated the spontaneous creation of self replicating polypeptide and nucleotides from constitutuent molecules.

Anonymous at Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:40:38 UTC No. 16631122

>>16621900
>between laying periods
How could this work?

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:50:16 UTC No. 16631421

>>16621874
It's well understood that generation length and number of offspring help species both adapt faster and accumulate mutations faster, yes. This is usually correlated with lifespan/maturation speed for obvious reasons (r-strategy), and often associated with adaptations that themselves increase the mutation rate (shoddy DNA replication/repair, less defenses against mutagenic substances, more transposable elements.)
Sorry anon, it's a pretty trivial deduction.

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:20:58 UTC No. 16631641

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Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:36:43 UTC No. 16631699

>>16631122
they used viruses in the sugar water solution you supplement between blood feedings
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(23)02675-5

Anonymous at Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:39:25 UTC No. 16631702

>>16631699
oh that was the azt treatment, virus was with the blood meals, where you'd expect arboviruses to be