The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Risa@startrek.websiteEnglish · 11 months agoEvery race needs at least one.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1356arrow-down113
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minus-squareAniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down14·11 months agoThat’s the mechanism, but how environments grow wings or blowholes or 8 vs 6 legs is entirely magic still.
minus-squareBarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down2·11 months agoEnvironmental pressures and conditions make specific traits more advantageous for species inhabiting a particular environmental niche. That’s why everything turns into crabs
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months ago“Everything Turns Into Crabs” would be an amazing title for a book about evolution. Someone tell Richard Dawkins.
minus-squareahornsirup@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoRandom chance produces advantageous trait. Advantageous trait gets propagated because it’s a competitive benefit for the individuals carrying it.
That’s the mechanism, but how environments grow wings or blowholes or 8 vs 6 legs is entirely magic still.
Environmental pressures and conditions make specific traits more advantageous for species inhabiting a particular environmental niche. That’s why everything turns into crabs
“Everything Turns Into Crabs” would be an amazing title for a book about evolution. Someone tell Richard Dawkins.
Random chance produces advantageous trait. Advantageous trait gets propagated because it’s a competitive benefit for the individuals carrying it.