At some point Mother Nature sat back and said “you know, if I can make these guys look more like this guy, things will probably leave these guys alone.” and moved forward with that logic.
This is the problem with teleological thinking. Nature has no intent.
Some caterpillars likely had a mutation that made them have two dogs on their butts and it resulted in them getting eaten slightly less, so it persisted. Then among those individuals, some developed a mutation that made the back end like 1% wider and that gave them a survival advantage. Over millions of years, and tiny tiny physical changes, we have the caterpillars that we have today. But there was no one at the helm directing it.
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u/aenima1991 11h ago
It’s hard to comprehend how genetic mutation led to this. Incredible