Shouldn’t bugs adapt faster than humans?

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I hear folks saying bugs are dying off because of changes in the environment, but shouldn’t bugs be some of the best equipped to handle changes? I imagine they reproduce faster than humans, and so I’d think their genes could adjust faster as well. You’d think we’d be having a worse time than bugs as the environment changes?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Even for short lived species like many bugs it takes tens of thousands of years for evolution to do much.

In evolutionary terms ten thousand years is an eyeblink, but it’s still tens of thousands of years.

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