• sirblastalot
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        6 months ago

        “You can’t fuck if you’re dead” what’s to understand

        • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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          That’s the mechanism, but how environments grow wings or blowholes or 8 vs 6 legs is entirely magic still.

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

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

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