Posted on 08/22/2018 5:53:11 PM PDT by ETL
When your mother told you to clean your room and you said you'd do it later, it turns out you were just trying to survive.
A new study from researchers at the University of Kansas suggests that species who use more energy on a daily basis are at a greater risk of becoming extinct than those that are more sedentary.
“We wondered, 'Could you look at the probability of extinction of a species based on energy uptake by an organism?'” said Luke Strotz, postdoctoral researcher at KU’s Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum and the study's lead author, in a statement.
In the research, Strotz and his team compared 300 million different mollusk species, including ones that had gone extinct 5 million years ago, and noted the extinct species had a higher metabolic rate.
"Those that have gone extinct tend to have higher metabolic rates than those that are still living," Strotz added.
"Those that have lower energy maintenance requirements seem more likely to survive than those organisms with higher metabolic rates.” ..."
Bruce Lieberman, a co-author of the study, added that "survival of the fittest," a phrase that emerged from Darwin's evolutionary theory, may need to be revised.
“Instead of ‘survival of the fittest,’ maybe a better metaphor for the history of life is ‘survival of the laziest’ or at least ‘survival of the sluggish,’” Lieberman said.
Strotz added that though there are a lot of factors and different inputs that matter when it comes to extinction, and metabolic rate is particularly important to pay attention to.
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LOL
If this is true, my dog may live forever.
“Some of the next steps are to expand it out to other clades, to see if the result is consistent with some things we know about other groups.”
The early bird catches the worm.
Who to believe?
Laziness May Have Contributed to the Decline of Homo Erectus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3679860/posts
Not so fast.
Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180810091542.htm
So, why isn’t every species like the sloth?
Who knew that Johnson’s War on Poverty was an attempt to avoid extinction.
“Not so fast.
Laziness helped lead to extinction of Homo erectus:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180810091542.htm
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Don’t rain on my parade. I’d like to think I’m saving humanity.
Just out of the goodness of my heart I’ll let y’all support me and ensure my survival, thereby, avoiding the end of humanity.
It seems idiotic to compare mussels to muscles. Look at long-lived people. They aren’t the ones who sit on their butts all day, but the ones who work their tails off...and the ones who starve themselves...
The exact opposite of people, but then people are not animals.
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