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𓀐 @Eo+ugShR: I don't really get evolution. I mean I read this book, very interesting, but I don't really understand why every animal isn't intelligent. It seems like the most useful trait by far and one that would be easily selected for since smarter creatures would have a better survival rate. Random mutations of things like air-breathing lungs and wings would be way harder to select for. Let's talk wings for a second. Birds come from reptiles, I can buy that. But an animal can only fly if it has a lot goi…

>>25582683 >why every animal isn't intelligent Intelligence is not particularly conductive to survival even in most humans. What do you suppose a pufferfish or a deer gain from it? Start making tools with their fins and hooves? Build Wile E Coyote traps against predators? They can already learn from things such as predator behavior, and communicate the very limited set of survival relevant signals to other members of their species. Abstract thought and complex language would be just a (massive)…

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