Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways.
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In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment.
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene.
The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they make a living.
Nature conserves, prefers novelty.
The laws of nature are structured so that we grow and change, and get to experience the full spectrum of biological existence.
As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification.
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