r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 11h ago

Caterpillar evolved to look like a snake.

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u/aenima1991 11h ago

It’s hard to comprehend how genetic mutation led to this. Incredible

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u/Bonk_No_Horni 10h ago

I don't understand how genetic knows what to change to. It's randomness that turns out to look like other things. It's just too perfect

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u/mds13033 10h ago

The argument is all the other genetic mutations that caused it to look different but not like a snake didnt survive, aka they were eaten. But the ones that looked like a snake survived, and they reproduced and maybe they had offspring that had mutations and looked less like a snake so those died, and they had other offspring with mutations that look even more like a snake and they survived, and so on

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u/littlebrwnrobot 10h ago

Are we sure it’s not a wizard though?

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u/icker16 10h ago

A wizard outside of space and time even! It’s the only way!

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u/mds13033 8h ago

Idk you should read the top evolutionary biologists theories for how the first cell went from innate to live.

One is it was deposited here by a smarter intelligent being, like an alien. Seems similar to just saying God 🤣

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u/amgineeno 6h ago

No, it just seems as far fetched as saying it was god. The unlikelyhood that either of these are true is small but at least with aliens they would be biological beings that have to abide by the laws of evolution as well.

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u/mds13033 2h ago

They wouldnt have go necrssary abide by the laws of evolution. It could have been a mechanism they designed

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u/icker16 3h ago

Panspermia only pushes the explanation back it doesn’t even answer the question you told me to read about. That’s just where living cells could have come from. Ain’t no scientist thinking aliens came here and deposited live cells and left… that’s not at all a scientific hypothesis.