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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Adaptation doesn’t mean survival. You are correct that due to short lifespans bugs respond to natural selection faster.
There have been experiments to prove this.
However adaption doesn’t mean everyone survives, it means the strongest survive.
So the bugs will still die off at huge rates, they will be replaced by others with different traits, sometimes other species completely ie the ones most adapted for the new condition.
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