How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction | Lauren Sallan

Congratulations. By being here,listening, alive,a member of a growing species,you are one of history’sgreatest winners –the culmination of a success storyfour billion years in the making. You are life’s one percent. The losers,the 99 percent of specieswho have ever lived,are dead –killed by fire, flood, asteroids,predation, starvation, ice, heatand the cold math of natural selection. Your ancestors,back to the earliest fishes,overcame all these challenges. You are here becauseof golden opportunitiesmade possible by mass extinction. It’s true. The same is trueof your co-winners and relatives. The 34,000 kinds of fishes. How…

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