LOL, How is loosing your legs and moving way slower evolving? I thought it was BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, SMARTER............. WHy doesn't current man have a tail? I sure would like to have a tail and be able to grab stuff with it like an extra arm...
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"I thought it was BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, SMARTER"
Well you thought wrong, dickhead.
"I thought it was BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, SMARTER............."
"EVOLUTION DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!"
Evolution does not work toward the more complex , it works toward the better . This just so happens to be the more complex a lot of the time.
For snakes, losing their legs was better.
Who do you reckon has a better chance of survival crossing a road, a human or a groundhog? I've been seeing an awful lot of groundhogs splattered all over the place lately. Somehow it wouldn't surprise me if they were your CLOSE kin, TT.
no, it's harder, better, faster, stronger. get it right.
No, it's not like that. Stupid. Are you bigger than a T-Rex?
No? Then obviously even within your stupid teleology, that's stupid.
Then you thought wrong; sometimes it's SMALLER, LESS CONSPICUOUS, LEANER.
"I thought it was BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, SMARTER"
... Why am I suddenly reminded of Daft Punk?
Losing legs was good for the snake, it dramatically reduced its metabolism so that it could live through f'ing famines. Some can live up to a year without eating. Unfortunately, that meant becoming slower - compromise is just so often a reality of nature, and furthermore, stop listening to Kent Hovind ffs.
(I say these things unfortunately with no expectation that any of it will get through)
No, evolution causes whatever would be best for the new environment. BIGGER, BETTER, FASTER, SMARTER =/= 100% perfect solution.
BIGGER hasn't proven to be best, smallness has proven to be the best way to avoid the bigger beasts, even in the ocean, they can't get you if they can't get to you. Also your needs of survival, your food supply becomes less, A colony of mice can survive on what one human needs.
BETTER is a subjective term, an opinion. If it has qualifiers such as faster, more intelligent or suited to the local enviroment then it means something. In General usage BETTER can be replaced with DIFFERENT.
FASTER I covered. Humans don't have to be faster then Tigers. We have to be smart enough not to play with them and have developed proven techniques to deal with them.
SMARTER is something that most species gravitate to. The smart ones survive and breed. So that's a given, Darwin guessed at it but since his time zoologists have witnessed invention and logic skill amoungst individuals of most species
WHy doesn't current man have a tail? I sure would like to have a tail and be able to grab stuff with it like an extra arm...
Evolution made already a huge leap when it gave us two arms with hands. Bipedalism, y'know?
And you can grab stuff with an extra arm. This is now provided to you by ... technology. Much more effective solution than to grow an extra arm. Technology is a product of our reasoning, which itself is a product of ... evolution.
Get too big, you collapse in on yourself.
But, yeah, evolution is meant to make things better. Better at filling a particular niche. Which could just as well require something smaller, slower, and maybe even dumber.
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