• JayDee@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I think the point the other guy is pointing out, is that good and bad evolutionary traits are often connected - or more helpfully stated, evolutionary traits can have both benefits and drawbacks which don’t immediately seem related to the same trait.

    It’s quite possible that octopi sex dementia is just a drawback to another trait which is very beneficial, so the dementia was just a bad aspect of a good trait that propagated forward. This happens all the time in different animal biologies.

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        8 days ago

        That is not how your comment reads. It reads like you think every trait exists as an advantage and propagates because it is a benefit. Plenty of traits propagate as side effects, which is how their comment read to me.

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          4 days ago

          Not really, and I think it’s because any unnecessary trait is an extra cost. But you can have your belief or even think we were magiced by an all powerful entity

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            4 days ago

            unnecessary traits might not always lead to extra cost, and even then, the extra cost might not always lead to extinction.

            the extinction usually happens when a trait that represents a disadvantage in a sufficiently heavy competition for survival. If the competition is low enough, the trait may survive.

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              2 days ago

              You may believe what you want or even reject evolution apparently, but you have now finally arrived at your statement and we can just agree to disagree as I will not forcefully teach people that doesn’t want

              • zeca@lemmy.eco.br
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                16 hours ago

                it is a rejection of a little part of Darwin’s theory, yes, I know. I do agree with the main part though.