• 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.