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jsomae@lemmy.ml 20 hours agoOkay true, but I still feel the comment was misleading. If it were phrased as “If vertebrae don’t have it, it means it wouldn’t improve their fitness” it would be wrong.
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jsomae@lemmy.ml 20 hours agoOkay true, but I still feel the comment was misleading. If it were phrased as “If vertebrae don’t have it, it means it wouldn’t improve their fitness” it would be wrong.
pyre@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
disagree. again, we don’t even know if such a change would be beneficial. also, more importantly, the post is entirely stupid. suboptimal by what measure? became disadvantageous how? against what? last time i checked ve**rtebrates were still dominating. now even more than they did during the ages of dinosaurs. too late to correct it… what? first of all, is it even a mistake to correct? where’s the evidence of that? second of all, did evolution stop? too late how? it’s complete bullshit, and if anything the original comment wasn’t harsh enough on it.
jsomae@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
I’m not claiming that this change in how eyes work would be an improvement. I’m claiming that the following does not hold generally: “Doesn’t have adaptation X ⇒ adaptation X would not improve fitness.”
pyre@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
yeah but that’s not part of the original comment, not even by implication. the opposite is also not true so it doesn’t factor in at all.