“It’s not the first cell, it’s not the first microbe, it’s not the first anything, really,” said Greg Fournier, an evolutionary biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
'On Vancouver Island—about 10 times closer to the mainland—the genetic diversity of any future grizzly population shouldn’t be a problem. As we’ve seen, “there’ll be males coming over to mix up the genes,” McLellan says. And now, perhaps, the odd female too."'
By that definition, horses that were introduced to North America by humans in 16th century are not invasive because they existed in North America 10,000 years ago.
The article also does say that Grizzlies come and go, that the significance here is it’s a female with cubs. So it’s not like grizzlies aren’t present at all on the island.
Of course there could be a boom but apex predators tend to not be super boomy since they’d outstrip their own resources first.
So they fill a niche in a place that evolved with extinct horses and can sustain another species of horse. If they pass a threshold where they drink all the water for example (desert pools on Australia with endemic desert fishes), they became invasive and must go.
"The original name SEQUEL, which is widely regarded as a pun on QUEL, the query language of Ingres,[14] was later changed to SQL (dropping the vowels) because "SEQUEL" was a trademark of the UK-based Hawker Siddeley Dynamics Engineering Limited company.[15] The label SQL later became the acronym for Structured Query Language."
They aren't exactly passing the collection plate around. It's much more transactional:
"So you had to have a special kind of paste before you went to go practice your Yogic Flying, and the paste cost, like, $150, and the Yogic Flying cost thousands of dollars to learn, and then your badge to get into the dome to practice the group meditation cost $100 a month."
"It cost thousands of dollars because Maharishi said that Americans don't value things unless they pay a lot of money for them."
I assume you never heard of Roman Protasevich before the plane incident?
Navalny on the other hand has done many notable things and was in the news all the time before his death. His is the first name you think of when you think of Russian opposition. This is not a valid comparison.
I heard about Navalny when he was in Germany because it was newsworthy, and then when he decided to get back to Russia. I have never heard about him before.
Same for Protasevich - it is because his plane was diverted that it made it to the news.
The only time we hear about these people is when they do something visible. I am not saying that this is OK, it is just the sad reality of our world where one news pushes another.
Navalny could have had protested and there would be a chance he would be heard then. When he was in prison it was over until he dies.
“It’s not the first cell, it’s not the first microbe, it’s not the first anything, really,” said Greg Fournier, an evolutionary biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.