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 DiamandisEvidence 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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