• Aniki 🌱🌿English
    218·
    6 months ago

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

      • Aniki 🌱🌿English
        314·
        6 months ago

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

        • BarrelAgedBoredomEnglish
          122·
          6 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            6 months ago

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

        • ahornsirup@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          71·
          6 months ago

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