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That’s not true at all. If something is a waste but doesn’t meaningfully change yours odds of suvival, “evolution” won’t care
by lukebitts 3y ago
That’s not true at all. If something is a waste but doesn’t meaningfully change yours odds of suvival, “evolution” won’t care
- xvilka 3y agoOut there food and energy are often scarce. Evolution does care about efficiency in that particular case a lot. True, there are ecosystems with plenty of free food but they are rarity.
- jacquesm 3y agoEvolution doesn't care about anything.
- runsWphotons 3y agoit is possible this is not quite true
- jacquesm 3y agoNo, that is not possible.
- runsWphotons 3y agoAt least in plants there is some evidence that mutations produced and then acted on by natural selection are not fully random. It is a long held assumption this should not be possible, but there are interesting lines of evidence suggesting it may be. It would open the chance of there being a kind of (limited) underlying logic.
- runsWphotons 3y agohttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04269-6.pdf https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04269-6.pdf This is an example. Epigenetically driven evolution in arabodopsis, which protects certain regions from mutation. In a very limited sense, evolution might be said to "care" about something here, as it is kind of taking direction from the environment, not simply acting on uniformly random mutations. Nothing like this is known in animals or most anywhere else afaik.