Just as a reminder, it’s also good to ask “is there any big disadvantage?”. Sometimes, a thing evolves traits that don’t help but don’t cause enough harm to stop being passed on.
It’s interesting how many people don’t realize this. We were having a casual discussion one day and one of the smartest people I know, who has been educated in a lot of science, didn’t realize that neutral or even outright negative traits can occur and persist in evolution. Evolution doesn’t create a perfect being. It’s just creates those that can survive long enough to reproduce better than those that can’t do it as well.
Just as a reminder, it’s also good to ask “is there any big disadvantage?”. Sometimes, a thing evolves traits that don’t help but don’t cause enough harm to stop being passed on.
It’s interesting how many people don’t realize this. We were having a casual discussion one day and one of the smartest people I know, who has been educated in a lot of science, didn’t realize that neutral or even outright negative traits can occur and persist in evolution. Evolution doesn’t create a perfect being. It’s just creates those that can survive long enough to reproduce better than those that can’t do it as well.
…evolved down the wrong path, almost as if its devolution
Yes, it makes sense