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nature's hedge fund — never betting everything on a single, brilliant, doomed idea.
means The condition of being made up of many different kinds of people, things, or ideas rather than just one.
from From Latin 'diversitas,' built on 'diversus' — the past participle of 'divertere,' meaning 'to turn aside, turn different ways' (from 'dis-,' apart, plus 'vertere,' to turn). That same spinning 'vertere' fathered a whole family — divert, divorce, version, vertigo — all of them turning away from something. It reached English through Old French 'diversité' in the medieval centuries, at first carrying a faintly negative whiff of 'oddity' or 'perversity' before settling into its neutral modern sense of simple variety.
- genetic edge
- inbred populations crash; mixed gene pools survive plagues
- banana risk
- the world's bananas are clones, vulnerable to one fungus
- team smarts
- varied groups outperform homogeneous experts on hard problems
- ecosystem armor
- diverse forests resist collapse better than monocultures
- old word
- comes from Latin meaning to turn different ways
toronto raptors roster 2023-24 — nba team with players from 13 different countries
singapore population — 74% chinese, 13% malay, 9% indian, 4% other ethnicities in one city-state
amazon rainforest species — contains 390 billion individual trees from 16,000 species
google workforce 2023 — 186,000+ employees across 50+ countries speaking 100+ languages