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If we kill the mosquitoes, and it leads to our downfall, then something will just evolve to fill our place since clearly we weren't well adapted enough...

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That's my favourite part of being Human: we're pretty awesome at adaptation.

I believe that is an understatement - we are properly the single best species at that.

That's a self-deceptive way of looking at evolution. Every species currently in existence is equally good at adaptation.

Not really - only humans have been able to adapt from walking 7 miles an hour to flying faster than the speed of sound in less than 100 years.

... and only humans have managed to kill off hundreds of millions of our kind in the same amount of time via war and genocide.

The point is, evolution has only one measure for success: continued existence. Everything else is irrelevant.

Ants have done the same. http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/clvea/ants/c0thznv

Not the ones that are on their way out soon...

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