Slimebeast said:
You cannot win the debate either. Yes, you just showed how extreme the environmental pressure is on bacteria, with them being present in all possible environments on earth. That's the point, to address how successful and prevalent bacteria are and show its implications in the context of the rate of evolution that would be expected from them. Despite bacteria being everywhere, in massive numbers, under all sorts of environmental pressures, yet they have remained on the primitive micro level, having only conquered niches on the single-cell micro level. Because the individual bacteria doesn't care if bacteria as a group of organisms have conquered the earth. Every individual of bacteria tries to survive, and every individual bacteria has potential to evolve into something different, something more complex. But they don't. Why is that? You need to ask yourself why bacterial evolution is so limited, so narrow, compared to the eukaryotic line of life. Bacteria is the prime example of (so called) micro-evolution never becoming "macro-evolution". |
Bacterial evolution is limited? You sir know nothing about bacterial evolution.
Eukaryotic life and evolution is but a small speck when compared to the amount of evolution that bacteria have suffered. If you compare the sheer number of species that bacteria and microbial life has managed to successfully create with the amount of evolution and different species that eukaryotic life has created, it would make complex life pretty laughable.
Human though processing is as essential to human evolution as plasmids recombination and transposition are to bacteria evolution.
As I said, I'm not going dwell further on this topic. You're speaking about things you know nothing about. Come back to me when you have basic genomic knowledge, and comprehension as to how bacterial genomics are the founding steps for understanding our own genomic evolution.
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