Geopolitical Mutagenesis - Doomberg
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When attacks build resistance.
“Out of life’s school of war—what does not kill me makes me stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche Few practitioners enjoy wrapping linguistic complexity around straightforward concepts more than biologists, which explains how Nietzsche’s 1888 truism on resilience came to be rebranded as “stress-induced mutagenesis” a century later. Among those who study living organisms and life processes, the term is applied to situations in which external stresses trigger an increase in mutation rate that boosts genetic diversity and can accelerate adaptation. The phenomenon is especially evident in the field…
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