"Ants, acorns and climate change" Topic
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| Tango01 | 18 Aug 2018 10:23 p.m. PST |
"The relatively swift adaptability of tiny, acorn-dwelling ants to warmer environments could help scientists predict how other species might evolve in the crucible of global climate change. That's a big-picture conclusion from research into the some of the world's smallest creatures, according to evolutionary biologists at Case Western Reserve University. More specifically, the scientists are comparing the adaptability of a certain species of ant raised in the "heat-island" microclimate of three U.S. cities to those in nearby cooler rural areas…."
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| Cacique Caribe | 19 Aug 2018 3:51 p.m. PST |
Life adapted when the most recent* Ice Age ended. So did most humans, even though some populations were separated and had to move inland or abandon low islands. Life will adapt. Most humans will too. Some extinctions are inevitable (more than 95% of extinctions happened long before humans ever came along) and new species will develop. It's not the end of the world, except for those who want to compartmentalize every ecosystem and stop the ebb and flow of living things, and for those who want their beachfront/island property to stay exactly the same. For them it's an existential threat. Dan
* It wasn't the first, and it won't be the last.
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ScottWashburn  | 20 Aug 2018 5:11 a.m. PST |
No, it won't be the end of the world, or the end of life. It could, however, be the end of civilization as we know it. Even if the acorn-dwelling ants don't notice. |
| Cacique Caribe | 20 Aug 2018 4:35 p.m. PST |
It's okay. Most people didn't notice either when that happened a few decades ago. :) Dan |
| Tango01 | 24 Aug 2018 9:55 p.m. PST |
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