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Nature Wants Diversity

I went to bed earlier than I meant to last night. Around 6pm I was dozing off on the couch so I told Katie I would go lay down for a bit. Next thing I know it's 12:30am and I wake up. Oops.

I eventually got back to bed and slept until the dogs woke me up.

But as I was trying to fall asleep I had a thought and made a note to myself. I realized that the different human traits we perceive are the evolutionary tips of these traits, and that they represent genetics doing what we call evolution. More than that though, I realized this is also true of traits which are spectrums, not solely ones where we have different colors for example.

Nature wants diversity, it's healthy for there to be a range of something as it helps ensure survival of a species rather than relying on a monolithic genetic model that is at risk of a single critical flaw.

This isn't a new realization for the humanity, but I had never consciously recognized it in this explicit a perspective.

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The Hunger Games (2012)

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I rewatched the movie yesterday and then this morning to finish it. I am reminded now how disappointed I was by the adaptation, it did wonderfully in creating the world and setting but so much of the written story and its nuances was lost in the adaptation.

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