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Its less about the genetics and far more about the conditions. If humans were literally stuffed into cages with other humans and not allowed room to move, then all those cages were packed together into warehouses, we would have similar health issues.

Just check out what happened on the slave ships for example. Its terrible what we put other living beings through.

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TIL rugosity/rugulose means finely wrinkled or full of wrinkles

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> I wouldn't call this an analogy, it is actually the same thing.

Ah, good. It's outside my research field, so I hedged my language in case the correspondence wasn't exact.

I can hear Slartibartfast getting ready to roll the glaciers over Africa on Earth II

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The thing with trying to apply evolution to modern systems is that it requires shitloads of death and failure for a solution to be stumbled upon. Most people and businesses are better off with just managing issues themselves.

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I wouldn't call this an analogy, it is actually the same thing. Planck's relations tell us that the energy of a particle is the frequency of its wave function time Planck's constant, and momentum is the wavevector times Planck's constant.

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In most cases that I am aware of Avian flu is fatal or nearly so.

It's impossible to serilize the barn while keeping a few survivors alive so it's safer for disease control to kill off the entire barn and treat it (usually sanitizing foam or high heat followed by allowing the whole barn to decompose in place for months before cleaning it out.

Bird flu isn’t a one and done illness. Ask an immunologist for a clear answer.

Stretching out a jagged coast would smooth it out, no?

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Thailand has a lot of jagged coasts.

And according to the local tour guide, every single island is James Bond island!

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