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plans for the inevitable undead uprising
Ozymandias:
No, he's right. For every genetic trait that succeeds, there has to be so much more that do nothing or fail.
Alex C:
Yeah, the mortality rate for rabbits dictates that something like 90% of them will die within their first year of life out in the wild. I don't know the numbers on how many of them manage to breed first, but the fact of the matter is that many of nature's creations persist not because they beat the odds but because they breed in such prolific numbers that even killing 90% of them results in enough getting by to perpetuate the next generation. Until they go extinct, of course, which happens more often than many people think.
calenlass:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 06 Mar 2008, 23:51 ---Yeah. If two animals born of the same mother, where one has a slight genetic mutation that tells it "man those green and blue frog things are probably bad for you", that's the one that's going to survive, because the other one eats a frog and dies. This gets passed on through generations of animals until everyone knows "stay the fuck away from those frogs!".
Gives you a perspective on how long that takes - successful genetic mutations are fairly rare in wildlife.
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Well, when your "generations" are 24 hours apart, like in fruit flies, or 2-3 days, like biting black flies, the pace picks up a wee bit.
Patrick:
Man so you're telling me that if I were a fruit fly I'd have only 24 hours to get laid and then I'd die, win or lose? I would probably just kill myself right there.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: Anyways on 07 Mar 2008, 15:46 ---The only criteria is probably "have you got a fly dick" though so I guess even I would be able to pull that off.
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My dick is pretty fly yo. :mrgreen:
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