You might appreciate thinking about the red queen model of evolution and its’ impact on your arguments. The technique of randomization of the genome as a way to avoid parasitism being lost by the immortals is probably an extremely serious problem in the long term. If as a parasite, your target organism is immortal, you have a long time to adapt, kind of like parasites adapted to bananas (which reproduce asexually).
That’s a very good point, I didn’t think of that (I was kind of assuming that the immortals just cannot die, which is of course unrealistic as Donald Hobson pointed out).
You might appreciate thinking about the red queen model of evolution and its’ impact on your arguments. The technique of randomization of the genome as a way to avoid parasitism being lost by the immortals is probably an extremely serious problem in the long term. If as a parasite, your target organism is immortal, you have a long time to adapt, kind of like parasites adapted to bananas (which reproduce asexually).
That’s a very good point, I didn’t think of that (I was kind of assuming that the immortals just cannot die, which is of course unrealistic as Donald Hobson pointed out).
Even ruling out death and disease, couldn’t the ‘horde’ also evolve to perform some sort of ‘social parasitism’?