As many of you may have figured out by now biology is a thing of mine.
Evolutionary biology in particular interests me because you can find so many lessons from the way "life finds a way" and these can be applied well beyond the realms of biology.
Take a look at the linked article from which the image is taken.
Below is a quote from the article:
These marine reptile groups likely stayed confined to their specialized niches, enabling many species to live together without competition. This pattern resembles the food chains of modern oceans, where many different species can coexist in the same area because they do not fight over the same resources.
Up till now steem, steemit and all the others apps and dapps built on steem have shared (read competed over) the same resources.
There as been lots of pushing, puling and politics. The advent of SMT's creates new niches for developers and their creations to thrive in. If done effectively and efficiently, as biology does it, this will lead to less squabbling as more diverse value streams are tapped into and more specialized resources appear.
The steemit ocean surely can become an ocean where whales, orcas, dolphins, tuna, minnows, plankton etc. truly can find their niche and thrive.