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Evolution is a basic, biological process

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12-31-2004 2:29 PM 		Reply to: Message 8 by jar
12-31-2004 10:20 AM

jar writes:
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...for example, virus centric then it is a great design.
Not necessarily. Dangerous pathogens are imperfect parasites simply because the hosts tend to die or disabled. The more they harm the hosts, the less chance they have of surviving as a species.
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So, even if we use the virus centric view, it would still be a very bad design.
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