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I'd go full mad and say the space continuum of life. Context is what drives life. Similar context breed similar forces and genes.
by agumonkey 5y ago
I'd go full mad and say the space continuum of life. Context is what drives life. Similar context breed similar forces and genes.
- Swizec 5y ago> Similar context breed similar forces and genes Flight is so useful, it evolved 4 times independently. With very similar solutions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_and_gliding_animals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_and_gliding_animals And crustaceans keep evolving into crabs. https://www.popsci.com/story/animals/why-everything-becomes-crab-meme-carcinization/ https://www.popsci.com/story/animals/why-everything-becomes-... And who even knows how many different times high level intelligence has evolved. I think octopi, birds, and mammals are all good examples of separate intelligence tracks with similar results.
- agumonkey 5y agoI believe Darwin envisioned that, and the Tree of Evolution was just an introductory notion (I never read his book) before going into subtler reasons for new traits.