Chaos, death, extinction are the only sure things in this cold universe. Nature’s solution is not to live forever, but to allow things to change. Allow species to adapt.
Allow individuals within species to have different skills sets.
So that one, day when chaos beckons, someone is able to handle it. At least better than the rest.
If variation in genetics, within species and across species, is the only sure strategy for the continuance of a species or the continuance of life, what else does that mean for the concept?
Where can we use variation in our own lives to make them better? To make ourselves stronger and more adaptable.
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“And then there was that key point in On the Origin of Species. That crucial point that somehow both David and before him Francis Galton had missed. What does Darwin say is the best way of building a strong species, of allowing it to endure into the future, to withstand the blows of Chaos in all her mighty forms—flood, drought, rising sea levels, fluctuating temperatures, invasions of competitors, predators, pests? Variation. Variation in genes, and hence in behaviour and physical traits. Homogeneity is a death sentence. To rid a species of its mutants and outliers is to make that species dangerously vulnerable to the elements. You never know which traits could prove useful as conditions change.”
Connections
Life Is A Process, Not A Thing
Reference
Book: Why Fish Don’t Exist Author: Lulu Miller Location: 1455-1465