imagine the roach empires that will rise once we do ourselves in
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Denjin@feddit.uk 6 days agoMass extinctions promote rapid expansion and diversification of surviving species into newly available niches.
betahack@lemmy.world 6 days ago
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
There’s also a Hypothesis iirc that this rapid expansion also lowered our life span. Longevity Bottleneck Hypothesis though I think this one includes dinosaurs hunting mammals, and maybe Disposable Soma Theory.
Huh, the second one could probably be used to explain elves in fantasy: long life, low reproduction rate.