[mamelukesabre]

Diversity is, at best, holding steady in the tropics and dying a slow death everywhere else. Evolution is the idea that living DNA re organizes itself into better and better designs. There appears to be a conflict. We are witnessing a “winding down” of diversity as if DNA’s ability to re-invent itself is played out, or getting there real soon. I don’t see how both evolution and this “winding down” phenomenon can be true.

[LibWhacker]

Okay, got it. Thanks. It's as if they are saying that you will get tremendous diversity if temps hold steady near 90 degrees and you'll get tremendous diversity if temps hold steady near 45 degrees, but what the vast majority of possible life forms cannot do is deal with widely fluctuating temperatures. DNA has limited options for designing such critters, but has lots and lots of options when temperatures are constant.

Wish I lived 5,000 years from now. I'd love to see what kind of life forms they'll be finding in space in those days.