Yep, that this most* radical conclusio of a evolutionary mind I can think of and yet I would bank on it that that will not be (I could be wrong) the outcome of an answer to the question, "Are topobiological cell collectives cell death toxin-antidote modules changed genetically?"
Indeed in the most biased evolutionary scenario we may not even be living but dead but now even I trick the words... Lets see what Jill the Weather Girl says in the mean time. I have almost decided to learn Perl and try to answer all of my c/e issues with this one question. If I succeed you can expect a web site dedicated to it which would likely include some of your perspectives (about possible probablisms etc) that I doubt will pan in as well for seeing how muddy Gould made the c/e waters and the extent of genic selectionism that must be dealt with I dont expect simple text responses such as I have been providing for the past few years to hold much more water if If I may like in pride to thinksometimes they hold at least the local flood amount.
I may be however altogether "wrong" though THIS has never happned to my second guessing for as you noted about "rates" I have yet to find the hook in Gould for allometry as a scholarship and not a mere phenomenology to which I can likely already more link a fan of the subject to Gould on Fisher but this last may have inverted a former to which I know not the latter to not be late and lat instead.