• Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    8 months ago

    No matter how many times you let that happen to a bacteria, as long as you’re killing them with a handgun, it keeps working. They don’t evolve defenses without becoming something different.

    So I guess it’s a bit metaphorgotten, but the point is that that’s only true if it’s a system where starting from zero to a billion is something that can be selected for, and it pretty much just is not.

    • ReveredOxygen
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      8 months ago

      You say that, but just you wait; I’ll invent a handgun-resistant strain of bacteria soon