More fun still - prions.
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Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Worst that there are also unknown Virus and Bacteria found in the Permafrost, which are also defrosted with the Climate change. A lot are also still life…
WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Let’s just hope that they have no compatible hosts on Earth
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Although, most likely less-evolved hence less-threathening than the current virus and bacterias.
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not less evolved. Just evolved differently for alternative environmental circumstances.
There is no hierarchy of evolutionary traits. Just an amalgamation of traits that are or are not useful in the current environment. What genetic makeup is effective in one place and time is useless in another.
We have no clue how threatening they could potentially be.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Less evolved as in the product of less evolution. There is such a thing as more and less because more happens over time.
GiveMemes@jlai.lu 1 month ago
Ok, but evolution doesn’t follow a straight path. The ancestors of whales looked like wolves, while whales look, act, and function much more like fish, which those wolves evolved from way earlier up the line. This is a common misconception about evolution, so don’t feel bad for getting caught in it.
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 1 month ago
To have “more or less” of something implies the effectiveness of the product is directly caused by the metric being measured.
The amount of time a genotype took to evolve has no bearing on the effectiveness.
There is no such thing as “more/less evolved”. There is no gradient. Something either is evolved to adapt to its environment or it isn’t.
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Yes and no.
Ok my last input was a bit lazy hence all the armchair biologists tuning in.
Less and more evolved is definitely a thing when alluding to the complexity of the system and since evolution is incremental time helps.
However you are right that adaptability to the environment is the most important thing when defining the success of your “genetic constitution”.
I guess my point is that we are more likely to have, in our DNA, evolved adaptation to them than they are to have adaptation to circumvent our immunity.
That being said, yes there are inherent risks to getting those out there, I’m just saying our propensity for enjoying fictional doom scenarios might make us overstate the probability of those occurences.
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Is the saber toothed tiger is less threatening than the common house cat ?
uis@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Yes, saber toothed tiger can’t manipulate humans.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 month ago
It’d have a fair go at manipulating your arm off your torso given the chance.
filcuk@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
If it can’t survive in today’s environment then yes.
StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s not how evolution works.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
They are investigating it, some million years in the oldest beeings in Earth don’t make evolutive difference to the current ones. The only question is, if they can infect humans or animals or not. The climate change make that all tipe of indesirable things are defrosted, adding more dangerous diseases to the existing ones.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Viruses and bacteria don’t evolve to kill you. They propogate in your system to spread themselves. It’s actually in their best interest to keep you alive, so the more evolved ones would be less deadly because they’ve had more time to dial it in. Not that evolution is something they choose, it’s from mutations that work more or less better.