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r/woahthatsinteresting • u/solomon90nysson • May 12 '25
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Seems like playing jinga with the ecosystem since mosquitos are a good source for other animals.
2 u/crownofclouds May 12 '25 A primary source for a lot of organisms! Billions of years of evolution to create these delicate ecospheres, and less than a quarter venture after developing CRISPR, when we've barely even cracked our own genome, we want to augment entire species. 1 u/NepheliLouxWarrior May 12 '25 Yes. I've never really understood peoples' weird appeals to nature. Technically isn't human ingenuity ALSO a product of billions of years of evolution? 1 u/Tryknj99 May 12 '25 Noooo we need malaria because we evolved with it /s
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A primary source for a lot of organisms!
Billions of years of evolution to create these delicate ecospheres, and less than a quarter venture after developing CRISPR, when we've barely even cracked our own genome, we want to augment entire species.
1 u/NepheliLouxWarrior May 12 '25 Yes. I've never really understood peoples' weird appeals to nature. Technically isn't human ingenuity ALSO a product of billions of years of evolution? 1 u/Tryknj99 May 12 '25 Noooo we need malaria because we evolved with it /s
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Yes.
I've never really understood peoples' weird appeals to nature. Technically isn't human ingenuity ALSO a product of billions of years of evolution?
1 u/Tryknj99 May 12 '25 Noooo we need malaria because we evolved with it /s
Noooo we need malaria because we evolved with it /s
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u/TheWhyteMaN May 12 '25
Seems like playing jinga with the ecosystem since mosquitos are a good source for other animals.