• Snowclone@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    We did evolve grandmother’s. That was an evolutionary pressure response. Deep knowledge and long growth have lead us through doors of perception far beyond the reach of all life we have yet precieved.

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        Apple pie.

        The entire purpose of life and evolution up to this point was to evolve grandmother’s apple pie.

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      23 hours ago

      Tangential nitpick—the phrase “evolutionary pressure response” evokes the idea that there is an intelligent or benevolent purpose behind the process. When a beneficial trait randomly occurs and gets passed on, that is a release from evolutionary pressure, not a response to it.