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 | | Subject: Book: WTF, Evolution?! Wed Oct 04, 2023 7:59 pm | |
| - Richard09 wrote:
- Unintelligible Design is a thing.
WTF, Evolution?! Sounded weird enough to order a copy. - Mara Grunbaum wrote:
- Imagine attempting to bake a gourmet cake when all you have in the pantry is spelt flour, powdered egg substitute, and off-brand "chocolate" drink mix. That's what it's like for Evolution, trying desperately to craft successful creatures from the assortment of hand-me-down supplies it has on hand. It would be nice if Evolution could do anything it wanted—renovate a mammal top-to-bottom, say, or stick propellers on a fish. But Evolution is a gradual process of change and adaptation, not some kind of wizard. It has to pick from a limited gene pool. It can enhance traits it finds in an ancestor, but it can't usually create anything new.
Funny, AND scientifically accurate. |
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