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Re:Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm... by IanCal on Monday July 03, 2017 @02:23AM (#14686232)
Evolution does not necessarily move towards optimal systems, by any definition. It may find local optima, but the process has no guarantees it's moving towards a global optimum.
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Re:Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm... by splawn on Monday July 03, 2017 @10:29AM (#14688472)
I am guessing your downvoters have never heard of mass extinction events.

EDIT: Here.... let me google up an example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

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