#something about mosquitoes and wasps i feel really makes ppl turn critical thinking off bc they arent charismatic enough for people to care
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flagellant · 8 months ago
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"Can we just genetically alter all mosquitoes to fundamentally redesign their entire evolutionary biology and ecological niche? I'd appreciate them a bit more if that way."
I understand you're probably being more than a little facetious but like...no? And if we can, we really shouldn't just go ahead and try and radically redesign the genetics of a keystone population like that.
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