I like to treat the environment/ecology as the cause. So that e.g. trees are caused by the sun.
I kind of feel like pelagibacter communis could maybe be seen as “evolutionary heat” or “ecological heat”, like in the sense that the ecology has “space for” some microscopic activity so whatever major ecological causes pop up, some minimal species will evolve to fill up the minimal-species-niche.
Wish I could upvote and disagree. Evolution is a mechanism without a target. It’s the result of selection processes, not the cause of those choices.
I like to treat the environment/ecology as the cause. So that e.g. trees are caused by the sun.
I kind of feel like pelagibacter communis could maybe be seen as “evolutionary heat” or “ecological heat”, like in the sense that the ecology has “space for” some microscopic activity so whatever major ecological causes pop up, some minimal species will evolve to fill up the minimal-species-niche.