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I feel like evolution would have weeded out significant waste from common systems shared among life. We may have been too quick to throw things we find in the j
by darpa_escapee 10y ago
I feel like evolution would have weeded out significant waste from common systems shared among life. We may have been too quick to throw things we find in the junk pile instead of the "probably don't completely understand how this fits together yet" heap.
- oh_sigh 10y agoI agree with your second point, but not the first. If true waste has very little/no cost associated with it, evolution wouldn't be able to select for it's removal.
- aoeu345 10y agoThat's a great point, though I surmise that there is no waste in the human body. Human's constituents are entirely composed of cells or organelles, and those all consume energy. If there were any cells/organelles that did not contribute at all to the human, he would have a lower performance than humans without the waste, and so evolution would select them out.
- grzm 10y agoI surmise that there is no waste in the human body This is a naive interpretation of evolution. For one, selection doesn't occur instantaneously.
- reubenswartz 10y agoI'm waiting for the onions, with their ability to replicate a genome 5X larger than hours, to suddenly take over. ;-)