SO ENDS this first weekend on the reversal of speciation. Although the biological trend is predominantly towards increased specialization to exploit narrower niches, the demonstration that a reversion to generalization occurs bucks the age-old, and wrong, cliche of an inexorable march towards perfect adaptation. Nature is to cunning and plastic to have but a single directionality. Even symmetries may be reversed.
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022