{"id":80279,"date":"2018-06-30T16:14:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T23:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/biotic-replacement-and-evolutionary-innovation-as-a-global-catastrophic-risk"},"modified":"2018-06-30T16:14:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T23:14:43","slug":"biotic-replacement-and-evolutionary-innovation-as-a-global-catastrophic-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/biotic-replacement-and-evolutionary-innovation-as-a-global-catastrophic-risk","title":{"rendered":"Biotic replacement and evolutionary innovation as a global catastrophic risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biotic-replacement-and-evolutionary-innovation-as-a-global-catastrophic-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Old, but excellent post:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>[Image: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File: DickinsoniaCostata.jpg\">\u201cDisckonsia Costata\u201d<\/a> by Verisimilius is licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/deed.en\">CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Several times in evolutionary history, the arrival of an innovative new evolutionary strategy has lead to a mass extinction followed by a restructuring of biota and new dominant life forms. This may pose an unlikely but possible global catastrophic risk in the future, in which spontaneous evolutionary strategies (like new biochemical pathways or feeding strategies) become wildly successful, and lead to extreme climate change and die-offs. This is also known as a \u2018biotic replacement\u2019 hypothesis of extinction events.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/globalriskresearch.org\/2016\/09\/12\/biotic-replacement-and-evolutionary-innovation\/\">https:\/\/globalriskresearch.org\/2016\/09\/12\/biotic-replacement...nnovation\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old, but excellent post: [Image: \u201cDisckonsia Costata\u201d by Verisimilius is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0] Several times in evolutionary history, the arrival of an innovative new evolutionary strategy has lead to a mass extinction followed by a restructuring of biota and new dominant life forms. This may pose an unlikely but possible global catastrophic risk [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-existential-risks","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}