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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Worst that there are also unknown Virus and Bacteria found in the Permafrost, which are also defrosted with the Climate change. A lot are also still life..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Although, most likely less-evolved hence less-threathening than the current virus and bacterias.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Is the saber toothed tiger less threatening than the common house cat ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, saber toothed tiger can't manipulate humans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

It'd have a fair go at manipulating your arm off your torso given the chance.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Not less evolved. Just evolved differently for alternative environmental circumstances.

There is no hierarchy of evolutionary traits. Just an amalgamation of traits that are or are not useful in the current environment. What genetic makeup is effective in one place and time is useless in another, and what was once useless may now be beneficial.

We have no clue how threatening they could potentially be.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Less evolved as in the product of less evolution. There is such a thing as more and less because more happens over time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

To have "more or less" of something implies the effectiveness of the product is directly caused by the metric being measured.

The amount of time a genotype took to evolve has no bearing on the effectiveness.

There is no such thing as "more/less evolved". There is no gradient. Something either is evolved to adapt to its environment or it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Ok, but evolution doesn't follow a straight path. The ancestors of whales looked like wolves, while whales look, act, and function much more like fish, which those wolf-like pre-whales evolved from way earlier up the line. This is a common misconception about evolution, so don't feel bad for getting caught in it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago

They are investigating it, some million years in the oldest beeings in Earth don't make evolutive difference to the current ones. The only question is, if they can infect humans or animals or not. The climate change make that all tipe of indesirable things are defrosted, adding more dangerous diseases to the existing ones.