“Evolved to Extinction”? I would be personally loath to use that phrase.
“Evolved to Extinction” because female mice become rarer and rarer? “Female mice become rarer and rarer” is another way of saying at least 50% of all the genes in all the female individuals will make it to the next generation. Which is pretty damn good odds. Consider all the mutations in all those male individuals that will never get a chance to make it to the next generation, because the male individuals will never even get a chance to get close to a female, much less mate with one.
Virus “evolved to extinction” by killing the host before the host has a chance to spread the virus to another host? If such a mutation makes it past a few generations, and then later dies out, I would describe it as “having the chair pulled out from under it” because the host density, that previously allowed it replicate, changed. The host density went down (could be because people dropped dead faster than they could reproduce, but maybe it changed for another reason) and extinction followed.
“Evolved to Extinction” strikes me like saying “because you walked northbound to step onto a southbound train, you really were walking southbound to begin with”.
Also, unless something evolves the incredible ability to survive the heat-death of the universe, every species will “evolve to extinction”.
I am really surprised you used the phrase “evolved to extinction”.
“Evolved to Extinction”? I would be personally loath to use that phrase.
“Evolved to Extinction” because female mice become rarer and rarer? “Female mice become rarer and rarer” is another way of saying at least 50% of all the genes in all the female individuals will make it to the next generation. Which is pretty damn good odds. Consider all the mutations in all those male individuals that will never get a chance to make it to the next generation, because the male individuals will never even get a chance to get close to a female, much less mate with one.
Virus “evolved to extinction” by killing the host before the host has a chance to spread the virus to another host? If such a mutation makes it past a few generations, and then later dies out, I would describe it as “having the chair pulled out from under it” because the host density, that previously allowed it replicate, changed. The host density went down (could be because people dropped dead faster than they could reproduce, but maybe it changed for another reason) and extinction followed.
“Evolved to Extinction” strikes me like saying “because you walked northbound to step onto a southbound train, you really were walking southbound to begin with”.
Also, unless something evolves the incredible ability to survive the heat-death of the universe, every species will “evolve to extinction”.
I am really surprised you used the phrase “evolved to extinction”.