•Can diversification save species? Yes. When an epidemic, pandemic, plague, or pest threatens a species, a gene mutation may provide just enough diversification to create immunity sufficient to survive and reproduce.
•Do you vote for the chicken or the egg? I vote for the egg. I think genetic mutations giving rise to the first chicken would have occurred when genetic material was replicating, recombining, etc., rather than as the result of a post-incubation exposure causing genetic change in a fully formed creature.
•“I always eat my broccoli!” I do, I really do. Both of my kids would rather eat broccoli than carrots, corn or potatoes. Yea!
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Good logic on the chicken vs the egg. I hadn't thought of how diversification could help with the survival in an epidemic.
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