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Raven in the edge of a clift at Madrid Sierra (Guadarrama National Park)
..................................................................................................... Death is the most important innovation of life. Life invented programmed death as the best way for staying alive. Ancestral forms of life were essentially immortals. Some bacteria in theory still are. But immortal life has not incentives for reproduction and so, since cataclysms, changes in environment and predators can destroy all similar individuals, immortal life is more prone to extinction. So life invented the programmed death as the best way to foster reproduction, the production of new individuals, of new ideas. Producing as much “ideas” (genetic combinations) as possible is the only way to achieve diversity. For without diversity any ecosystem collapses. The biosphere as a whole cannot be maintained without diversity, without the constant production of new different individuals. So life invented death as the best way for remaining alive (opportunely, this strange obstinacy of life, a chemical? system, for staying alive perfectly reflects the human desire of eternity). ........................................................................ It is a privilege to be conscious in this Universe, to stay alive in this particular planet and to share it with so many goodly creatures. And the crows and ravens are one of the most clever animals on Earth.
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