• @VindictiveJudge
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    66 months ago

    It’s also not even remotely how DNA or evolution work.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿
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      -166 months ago

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

        • Aniki 🌱🌿
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          -116 months ago

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

          • @BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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            106 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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              26 months ago

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

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