> > > >There're only a few things that can kill off the entire human race: a massive high speed asteroid strike, a cataclysmic mantle eruption, and global warming, to name a few. The bio stuff doesn't come close.
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> > We have, must have, enough genetic diversity that no single pathogen
> > can kill all of us. Species without that diversity are extinct. >
> WE do in fact have that diversity, and nothing nature throws at us can kill off the human race.
The neanderthals had diversity, as did the dinosaurs. It didn't save them, nor will it save us, as individuals. The real human advantage is intelligence (vaccines, organized medicine, and even political organization).