Adaptations are not random. Mutations are . When a mutation has an advantage it is an adaptation. Think of it like a die roll but the roll is random (mutations) and permanent. So bad rolls basically never repeat except randomly. Out of this noise you occasionally get crit. That does not repeat randomly because it confers advantage.
Special note;
By advantage we mean an advantage for the mutation. *that does not mean an advantage for the organism or the species.*
Ok, memes aside and forget climate change, aren't you worried about the shit that's in the air? The concentration of toxic particles is so high that you can't breathe pure air not even on top of the Himalayas. All that shit comes down into the water we drink etc. Climate change seems like a secondary issue, but both sides sperg over that and forget the rest
yeah, india, nigeria, indonesia, malaysia, and many other developing countries have issues too... but china is by far #1 per capita on basically everything bad in regards to environemtnal standards.
OK. But it's just that adaptations are not random, nor a grab bag. In evolutionary biology it's called 'drive'. The degree to which they are favorable adaptations that is.
One could almost argue that the species present in an ecological system are a direct reflection of the conditions, and they are destined to fill a set of niches with certain characteristics in an emergent way
There could be a time when you might be able to set climate variables in a calulator, and have it spit out all the possible creatures that would exist there
"There's some argument in the biology community about the origin of SOME adaptations, in the sense that they're 'random' in a very distinct direction"
Is the part I was referring too about adaptation and randomness. That lack of randomness is what we call drive. Also I was kinda thinking about a 100,000 sided die not a D6. Hence the long periods it takes to roll a crit.
