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Other Examples of Evolution Enabling the Resilience of the Living
Examples of the Resilience of Existence, playing out in various dimensions of varying complexity:
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"Selfish DNA"
- the only DNA sequences that ever survive are those that replicate. And of course, the only way that they can replicate, and therefore persist, whether mutated or not, is via the relationship it has with the rest of the host machinery that enables it to do that.
Which, of course, is all coded for by either the specific "selfish DNA" being observed, or any of the other "selfish DNA" that it has stumbled into partnership with.
First introduced and communicated in the 80's, and very naturally embraced as unexpected, but apparently obvious. Not understood from an MOA standpoint. The view has persisted to this day, always with increasing additional evidence and validation.
Various examples, in increasing levels of hierarchical "sophistication":
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Flowers and the Bees -
evolved in synergy
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Photosynthetic energy harvesters
(i.e. CO2, H2O, and electromagnetic energy consumers, O2 and carbohydrate waste producers) and eventual synergy with aerobic harvesters (i.e. O2 and carbohydrate consumers, CO2, H2O and energy producers). Examples:
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Cyanobacteria
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Algae
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Plants
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Agricultural (plant and food animal) and human synergies
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The Big Bang,
generating something (everything known or knowable, which may not be everything) from nothing "before".
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Gravity
- apparently drawing everything towards everything, always, and with no distance limit.
May or may not (far in the future) result in all coming back together, forming the "Maximum Black Hole" which may result in the reversal of The Big Bang (nothing from something "before").
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"Resistance" development to environments, chemicals, or other organisms that would, under typically experienced circumstances, kill other genetic-inheritance-based biological organisms.
Examples are antimicrobial, insecticide, herbicide, or temperature resistances.
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A scanning electron micrograph of a tardigrade.
These resistances are essentially developed through random gene evolution during replication. Random gene changes have a statistical likelihood of altering the the specific biological machinery that the normally lethal treatment targets. If so, the newly reproduced individual is no longer negatively impacted.
In other words, since evolution is ALWAYS ON, "resistance" is as normal an outcome to be expected as any other evolutionary selection that improves synergy with a changing environment.
That's what Life does. Life never stops trying. Resiliently.
Examples:
→ These Evolution-based examples of Resilience enablement were last updated 09 May 2018 16:30 PDT ←
Conserve the Liberty to change, adapt, and persist just as you have evolved to do, again and again.
Resiliently.
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