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Tigers 🐅 🐯 (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is how evolution works. People often imagine some sort of logical system to it, but it really is just random mutations all over, with the advantageous ones propagating. There were probably a bunch of tigers with various odd colors or patterns at some point due to random mutations, but those evidently were less useful for hunting and reproducing than how they look now, so they died out in competition with the known variants.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ya so we wouldn’t expect everything to be optimized or all “features” (traits) to be useful right?