[HN Gopher] The evolutionary innovations that wait millions of y...
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       The evolutionary innovations that wait millions of years to come
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       Author : Petiver
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2023-04-19 20:07 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | quantum_state wrote:
       | Could this be in anyway related to punctuated equilibrium?
        
       | JoeAltmaier wrote:
       | Part of why resurrecting ancient organisms (think Jurassic Park)
       | is going to be difficult. They won't want to thrive today. Wrong
       | gut biome; wrong food; wrong air! They'll likely be sickly or die
       | soon after birth.
        
         | jareklupinski wrote:
         | yea we should wait until we figure out how to deflect asteroids
         | reliably too
        
       | jonplackett wrote:
       | There's something off for me about this way of thinking about
       | innovation.
       | 
       | A lot of it is just random chance.
       | 
       | DNA mutation is just random chance for a start.
       | 
       | And a lot of inventions are discovered by accident - rubber as
       | mentioned but lots of others.
       | 
       | You can tell a story afterwards about a bunch of chance events
       | that interacted, or stacked on top of one another.
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       | That's just what humans do. We will turn any events into a story
       | to try and force it to make sense.
       | 
       | The truth is though, it's all very random and out of control and
       | mostly life makes no sense
        
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