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Evolution is guided by the environment. For example, if customers always choose the best-looking pumpkins to take home and eat, and the ugliest ones end up bein
by cousin_it 15y ago
Evolution is guided by the environment. For example, if customers always choose the best-looking pumpkins to take home and eat, and the ugliest ones end up being used for seed, the genes of ugly pumpkins will have more successors in each generation, and pretty soon your crops will consist of ugly pumpkins only. That's the complete mechanism of evolution right there. Would you say the customers unwittingly acted as a guiding force in evolving your population of pumpkins toward ugliness?
- Tichy 15y agoI think your example is unfortunate because it involves intelligent decision makers, which could indeed be interpreted as a guiding force. There are of course forces in nature, namely the laws of physics.