even in death organisms breed life, ex. carbon cycle

This remind me of how mammals came to be, not just mammals, but the other classes that led to mammals

And in a way it supports more diversity in the whole ecosystem

diversity is everything!! Without it we risk losing species

could this be because there is a greater capacity to hold them? For a time they might not struggle as much because variations might help partition niches

this kind of sounds like speciation

The environment makes a big difference as far as variation goes

they have their own mechanisms for avoiding inbreeding

Gregor Mendel showed us some pretty important things here too

This can almost become a dependence though and wouldn't one say that would be bad? Because if the bees were to be wiped out then wouldn't the flowers be too? Or would they adapt, and other varieties become more dominant?

is this in a way signs of coevolution?

They were here :'(

this variety would add to the survival of the species as a whole

This is such a great question!! Would any domesticated species survive in Nature? Probably not, but there could be exceptions

By having more variation in a gene pool Natural Selection has more to act on and greater chances of species survival

That's how entwined life is

Can we thing of any in nature?

Artificial vs Natural

because so few organisms have adapted to persist

:'(

when we are the cause of mass extinctions taking place

we are living it too!

seems characters are better suited for surviving than others

could this be reference r (more offspring to increases the chances of having ones that survive) vs k selected species,

they are also plagued by disease on occasion, and their health is compromised so much because of their close quarters and diets (not all agr. industries treat them like this, but it's disgusting the way some do)

Is this talking about invasive species?

carrying capacity

the struggle for resources

that's the driving force

These two words just called out because it truly is amazing at the grandeur of forms that life has taken, reminds me of the Bryson reading on how everything that makes us up doesn't really care or even know that we exist but still works towards it

In the Grant video about Darwin's Finches they delve into this, how are species formed?

What's crazy is that now we can get an idea of how many varieties there can be, or what the varieties are through genetics

I forgot the actual phrase but this reminds of how present organisms have evolved with characters that were necessary for the the past, whether they serve the present well or not has to do with a bunch of factors - something of that sort it was from Diversity of life

Quite deductive

I wonder, is there a place where you can look and see if what constitutes a species and a "variety"? It seems very subjective.

Even with important characters like organs, we might all have a similar "code", but it doesn't mean we all express it the same way.

Whether it be sexual selection or survival of the fittest (or other hypotheses) that makes it that way