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But I really expect that simple organisms (like, you know, plankton) will evolve to survive

What makes you confident of that?




oh, life is badass and is doing this all the time. The opposite (nobody evolves to survive) will be very improbable.

In a similar past scenery all known species of Ammonitoidea vanished and dissapear, but some similar cephalopods just lose the external shell, growth a skin over the shell somehow or put the remains of the shell inside the body and its descendants are doing fine as octopus, squids and cuttlefish.

It will be a disaster for the humans that need clams, crustaceans and sea ursins to feed this families, and hundreds of marine species will not survive of course, but for a few species this will be a real blessing.




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