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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by simonh on Thursday June 23, 2022 @08:50AM (#31848315)
My daughter once said she wasn't sure if she wanted to have kids. I told her she's the end result of an unbroken chain of 4 billion years of successful reproduction, with zero failures, and it would be a shame to break it now. No pressure.
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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by havelhovel on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:48AM (#31849077)
Generally speaking, that chain depended on each generation producing more than one offspring to avoid the risk you’ve described.
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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by anotherman554 on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:00AM (#31849233)
It's also true of the ants you step on when you walk outside. It isn't actually worth celebrating.
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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by jmmcd on Thursday June 23, 2022 @02:08PM (#31852972)
Most of those ants are workers, so already evolutionary dead-ends!
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Re:New Tolkien book, The Fall of Númenor, to be published by actionfromafar on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:34AM (#31849661)
It matters to them?
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