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Re: Carcharocles [Carcharodon] megalodon



I find it very strange that Lipowski can feel so
certain about these "inevitable superpredators" when
he seems incapable of naming even a single candidate.

I'm not surprised that he finds the occasional evolution of predators that drive themselves to extinction inevitable. What's strange is the contrast to textbook ecology -- a mutation that confers such properties should lead to extinction (of a deme) faster than it could spread. A very homogeneous, very panmictic population would be needed to overcome this...