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Does Evolution Select For Faster Evolvers? Horizontal Gene Transfer Adds To Complexity, Speed Of Evolution

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Endy:
Probably it'd be better to say that the speed of evolution depends on the scale being described. A few days for us could be a millenia for a lower lifeform.

Presumably there's also a linkage between the Threat Rate and Evolutionary speed. Provided that the threat doesn't kill off a whole species or exceed the rate evolution can occur; Evolution speed will increase as threat rate increases. Right now most species are in a sweet spot of geological time so with exceptions like Global Warming and the Industrial Revolution, most species are relativly stable. Bacteria are obviously having a hard time and so are evolving faster relativly speaking.

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