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		IanCal on July 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides fin... Evolution does not necessarily move towards optimal systems, by any definition. It may find local optima, but the process has no guarantees it's moving towards a global optimum.

splawn on July 3, 2017 [–]

I am guessing your downvoters have never heard of mass extinction events.

EDIT: Here.... let me google up an example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

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