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I agree. It would seem to me that if such organisms had such a big advantage in the wild they should have already evolved independently.
by splat 16y ago
I agree. It would seem to me that if such organisms had such a big advantage in the wild they should have already evolved independently.
- ptpu 16y agoNote though, this would be really hard to evolve. As an analogy, the photosynthetic center RuBisCO is fairly wasteful, so any organism that can improve on RuBisCO would have a huge advantage. Only problem is RuBisCO is not easily evolvable (like brittle code), thus we don't know of any improvements although they are quite possible theoretically.
- Jach 16y agoEvolution doesn't seek out advantages, it just happens statistically that changes which carry advantages have more probability of rising to fixation within a species. Plus as ptpu touched on (and I'd wager he's more knowledgeable than I am) it's probably hard to even get the necessary mutations let alone having them stick around, or the species lasting long enough, etc.