Dinosaurs went extinct because they lacked genetic variance and malleability; in contrast, furry mammals possessed variance in their phenotypes and were thus able to adapt to the asteroid impact and environmental change, demonstrating why biological variance confers survival advantage.

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Peter Diamandis

Evidence Quote

The dinosaurs were slow and lumbering, not malleable, not adaptive, and died. But the furry mammals flittered around, jiggled around, and became dominant.

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Forget Everything You Believed About Computing w/ Gill Verdon | EP #102Peter H. Diamandis
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:19:37 PM

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