Number of individuals is not a conserved quantity. If you’re going to score contests of homeostasis, do it by something like biomass (plants win), or how much space it takes up in a random encounter table, or how much attention aliens would need to pay to it to predict the planet’s future (humans win).
Number of individuals is not a conserved quantity. If you’re going to score contests of homeostasis, do it by something like biomass (plants win), or how much space it takes up in a random encounter table, or how much attention aliens would need to pay to it to predict the planet’s future (humans win).