• The Picard Maneuver@startrek.websiteOP
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    9 months ago

    I didn’t care for it either. It was like they wanted to explain why every alien race looked like humans in costumes, but I was perfectly fine with suspension of disbelief.

          • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.ee
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            9 months ago

            That’s the mechanism, but how environments grow wings or blowholes or 8 vs 6 legs is entirely magic still.

            • BarrelAgedBoredom@lemm.ee
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              Environmental pressures and conditions make specific traits more advantageous for species inhabiting a particular environmental niche. That’s why everything turns into crabs

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                “Everything Turns Into Crabs” would be an amazing title for a book about evolution. Someone tell Richard Dawkins.

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              Random chance produces advantageous trait. Advantageous trait gets propagated because it’s a competitive benefit for the individuals carrying it.