• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    2 hours ago

    Less evolved as in the product of less evolution. There is such a thing as more and less because more happens over time.

    • GiveMemes@jlai.lu
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      2 hours ago

      Ok, but evolution doesn’t follow a straight path. The ancestors of whales looked like wolves, while whales look, act, and function much more like fish, which those wolf-like pre-whales evolved from way earlier up the line. This is a common misconception about evolution, so don’t feel bad for getting caught in it.

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      2 hours ago

      To have “more or less” of something implies the effectiveness of the product is directly caused by the metric being measured.

      The amount of time a genotype took to evolve has no bearing on the effectiveness.

      There is no such thing as “more/less evolved”. There is no gradient. Something either is evolved to adapt to its environment or it isn’t.