• Ferris@infosec.pub
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    7 months ago

    lending purpose to an evolutionary trait is a mistake. It is possibly that mechanism by which they attained some degree of success, but evolution doesn’t ‘think’ unless youre into predeterminism like that.

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      7 months ago

      Totally. Perhaps a better way to learn it would be, the successful result of the adaptation was that birds spread their seeds instead of mammals. Until us.

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      7 months ago

      the correct response to mine may be ‘why crabs then?’ to which i have no response xD