What would happen to life if the mutation rate of living beings would increase significantly?
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We know that the human germline mutation rate is approximately 0.5×10?9 per basepair per year (from wikipedia). I was wondering: what would happen to life on earth if the mutation rate would suddenly shift to 0.5x10-9per basepair PER WEEK for all living beings, not just humans or mammals, but also for plants and bacteria. Fungi and insects, and so on . What would this mean for evolution and survival? How would mankind adapt to this change, and how would the wilderness? I like to brainstorm on this thought a lot recently.