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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Death is evolution. If the sole food source of a species vanishes, the species starts dying. Only the members of that species that have mutations that allow them to find an alternative food source survive. Let’s say 10% find a food source. We still see 90% die off.
Germs are a good example. Antibacterial soap might kill 99.9% but the 0.1% that survives is what will get to reproduce and slowly that antibacterial agent becomes ineffective as those mutant strains become more common.
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