Would it be accurate to say that an adaptive trait is one selected by some evolutionary pressure, while a non-adaptive trait is just coincidence?
How could you tell if this trait was just very broad in it’s application, say just the instinct to squeeze things, verses something completely coincidental?
Thrashy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Wikipedia article for these little monsters describes the males aggressively fighting over females, to the point of killing some, and then squeezing the eggs out of their dead bodies to fertilize them… Gonna guess it’s the same one.