• @JayDee
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    25 days ago

    That is not how your comment reads. It reads like you think every trait exists as an advantage and propagates because it is a benefit. Plenty of traits propagate as side effects, which is how their comment read to me.

    • @[email protected]
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      113 hours ago

      Not really, and I think it’s because any unnecessary trait is an extra cost. But you can have your belief or even think we were magiced by an all powerful entity

      • @[email protected]
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        12 hours ago

        unnecessary traits might not always lead to extra cost, and even then, the extra cost might not always lead to extinction.

        the extinction usually happens when a trait that represents a disadvantage in a sufficiently heavy competition for survival. If the competition is low enough, the trait may survive.