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In the case of the Sydney funnelweb, it's pure coincidence. The spider is much more toxic to primates than any other type of animal, but evolved in Australia,
by syllogism 12y ago
In the case of the Sydney funnelweb, it's pure coincidence.
The spider is much more toxic to primates than any other type of animal, but evolved in Australia, with no primates.
The "selection" that's going on here is in our attention: our gaze fixates on the species that have poison or venom that's particularly potent against us, out of the thousands of species that have poison or venom of some sort.
(Source: Somewhere in this otherwise sort of stupid video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myh94hpFmJY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myh94hpFmJY )