Life "wants" to spread, so perhaps an increase in the volume in which life can be found?
Newly created islands may have "weird" biospheres initially, but evolve towards a more "normal" set of niches over time?
Life "wants" to spread, so perhaps an increase in the volume in which life can be found?
But why would life get more optimal? Evolution has finite optimization power, and it has long ago already reached this limit.
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