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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 years ago (3 children)

Or maybe one day we will understand why we have hiccups and find out that it's important.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Evolution is like a brute-force attack that tries out random mutations over time, and usually keeps them as long as they don't affect chances of reproduction. As long as a bug isn't critical it'll continue to get copied to the next offspring. Not every phenomenon that evolves has a purpose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

I'm sorry but I'm skeptical that all things which look "weird" and "buggy" to us are actually inherently bad. There always is a reason for everything. We just don't know it yet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

probably not though