08-18-2005, 08:59 PM
I was getting a at balance of complexity with respect to the energy cline.
Its possible there is a natural ratio and we humans have moved it off balance.
Of course if we took our hands off, the balance would re-emerge - but it would take millions of years(how many millions is debatable.)
Of course there is a question of how the complexity is weighted and what effect the largest fauna should have on it. But big animals do seem to always occur naturally.
Its possible there is a natural ratio and we humans have moved it off balance.
Of course if we took our hands off, the balance would re-emerge - but it would take millions of years(how many millions is debatable.)
Of course there is a question of how the complexity is weighted and what effect the largest fauna should have on it. But big animals do seem to always occur naturally.