• 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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      6 months ago

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