I tend to support karen's suggestion (below in this🧵) to calibrate fast-/slow-growth along Milankowitch cycles. we could easily account for the continuum of growth rates by including metric prefixes 😉 but there are 2 issues: 1/2

2/2 · we often do not know which % of a population is actually growing [see Solopova et al (2014) www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles... · I'd like to know, which bugs are in fact *capable* of exponential growth, and which are not. the former would be potentially fast-growing, the latter slackers.