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What if the adaption is just a side-effect of another adaptation? As in, if there is no difference between surviving at -80 C and absolute 0? Besides, I don't
by IgorPartola 12y ago
What if the adaption is just a side-effect of another adaptation? As in, if there is no difference between surviving at -80 C and absolute 0?
Besides, I don't exactly see a point in some intelligent creature creating these little buggers with the ability to survive basically anything, yet giving them no other purpose. It's the equivalent of creating a computer program that is in all ways perfect, yet does absolutely nothing.
- revscat 12y agoThere is no intended implication for intelligence behind the extremophile behavior of tardigrades. Merely that it is curious how such a characteristic would have arisen given the absence of the environmental conditions (seemingly) needed to precipitate such traits.
- IgorPartola 12y agoFair enough. I still think that it's not that surprising. For example, nobody in the part of my ancestry that matters evolutionarily had to jump out of the way of a moving car, yet I am able to do this. Perhaps this analogy is too simplistic, but I think you see what I'm driving at.
- yellowapple 12y ago"but I think you see what I'm driving at." Hah.