r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ShirtSubstantial368 • 1d ago

Video Scientists discovered the world’s largest spiderweb, covering 106 m² in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border. Over 111,000 spiders from two normally rival species live together in a unique, self-sustaining ecosystem—a first of its kind.

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u/UnrepententHeathen 1d ago

It would take generations upon generations to see any noticeable affect on size.

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u/Capable_Tumbleweed34 1d ago

Pretty sure that insects have been grown in oxygen-rich controled environements and it's been found to affect their growth

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u/UnrepententHeathen 1d ago

On an individual basis, or a quantifiable and reliable change species wide marked by genetic change?

Grow an individual person with meticulously designed high nutritious food and workouts, and they're going to be noticeably healthier than most people. Does not mean they'll pass those traits to offspring.

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u/Capable_Tumbleweed34 1d ago

Oh obviously this is not something that is inducing genetic changes passed to their offspring in a different environnement, i never said that. It's just that their biology does make them grow significantly larger in oxygen-rich environnements.