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Which animals? Octopus have a glitch where their digestive tract shuts upon reaching sexual maturity, so they starve to death yet keep passing that gene on, jus
by vmception 5y ago
Which animals? Octopus have a glitch where their digestive tract shuts upon reaching sexual maturity, so they starve to death yet keep passing that gene on, just a few years into their lifespan. F for Failure (At least we dont have to compete on this planet with older smarter octopi)
- sdenton4 5y agoAre you sure it's a glitch? Humans are useful to one another past childbearing age because we're social animals: caring for grandchildren helps them survive. Octopods, otoh, are notoriously solitary animals. Once they're done reproducing, surviving adults would mainly be in competition with the young.
- vmception 5y agoAll natural selection is a glitch and pure happenstance with no meaning, only retroactively applied to have a purpose. Octopus may well have genes to make them more social as they get older, but at 3 years old it hasn't developed.