• Aniki 🌱🌿
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      -1611 months ago

      We have no idea how evolution works. Anyone claiming otherwise is a liar.

        • Aniki 🌱🌿
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          -1111 months ago

          That’s the mechanism, but how environments grow wings or blowholes or 8 vs 6 legs is entirely magic still.

          • @[email protected]
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            1011 months ago

            Environmental pressures and conditions make specific traits more advantageous for species inhabiting a particular environmental niche. That’s why everything turns into crabs

            • Flying Squid
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              211 months ago

              “Everything Turns Into Crabs” would be an amazing title for a book about evolution. Someone tell Richard Dawkins.

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            11 months ago

            Random chance produces advantageous trait. Advantageous trait gets propagated because it’s a competitive benefit for the individuals carrying it.