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What is the EVOLUTIONARY advantage of death?

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Dan Carroll
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10-24-2003 3:46 PM 		Reply to: Message 3 by Mespo
10-24-2003 3:00 PM

Re: No Choice
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I didn't mean to imply a choice, sidelined. Sorry. I know we don't. But there would seem to be a huge evolutiuonary advantage to a creature that can patch itself back together as to one, as you say, is "subject to degradation from interaction with the environment."
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There would also be a huge evolutionary advantage to a creature that could shoot laser beams from its eyes.
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So?
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Evolution, like everything else, is bound by what is possible at any given point in time.
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Dan Carroll
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10-24-2003 4:41 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Mespo
10-24-2003 1:49 PM

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What advantage is gained by dying?
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Incidentally... death weeds out bad traits. If an animal isn't fit, it dies off, and the trait is removed from the gene pool without being passed on.
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