Re:What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life
by akiselev on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @07:49PM
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That's the point?
Anything that has survived for a billion years in a form that could still be considered roughly the same organism or a close descendant must have a relatively stable biochemistry and gene pool that is capable of surviving an extreme range of environmental changes - as close as you can get to a holy grail in natural selection.
Obviously its survival would not be inevitable; not even stars can survive their own age.
Anything that has survived for a billion years in a form that could still be considered roughly the same organism or a close descendant must have a relatively stable biochemistry and gene pool that is capable of surviving an extreme range of environmental changes - as close as you can get to a holy grail in natural selection.
Obviously its survival would not be inevitable; not even stars can survive their own age.