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Evolution doesn’t explore anything, mutations are random, selection pressure causes beneficial traits to become more common overtime.
by computerex 9mo ago
Evolution doesn’t explore anything, mutations are random, selection pressure causes beneficial traits to become more common overtime.
- yetihehe 9mo agoYes, but those mutations are part of why evolution works. Through random mutations, every possible way of doing something is explored. If something is beneficial, organisms thrive. If it's not beneficial, organisms die. The same is for whole species. If a species was using some niche to their advantage and the niche disappeared, the species will die. But that niche (nook) was explored.
- esafak 9mo agoThat's what exploration looks like; mutation plus selection. I think you know this but consider exploration willful, perhaps?
- computerex 9mo agoYes, that's it. I could have worded it better. My point was that it's random, evolution isn't a directed willful phenomenon but a consequence of the physical world/physics.
- RaftPeople 9mo ago> mutations are random Kind of. Mutation rate of our dna is "managed" by the dna/chromosomes/genes to reduce the rate in critical areas.