• Chriswild@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    You’d be surprised how inefficient much of evolution is. Look at a giraffe’s laryngeal nerve and you’ll see what I mean but because it hasn’t been a reason to die or deter mating it carries on.

    Even in humans or knees are awful but because we evolved from monkeys our knees had to bend backwards to climb. So to get around this we have long feet and an ankle that serves as the fulcrum instead of knees like basically every other know bipedal species.

    I could ramble on about this for a while but I’ll spare you my nerdy excitement.

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      10 months ago

      Oh, I’m aware that a trait surviving doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the best and I’m not trying to say that everything from the natural world is something you’d put in a design (you truly cannot understand how much I hate the human musculoskeletal system).

      With that said, there are also a lot of really cool adaptions that can be utilised in R&D. My point was more a general comment about biomimicry being rad. Also, I think I was considering evolution as something of a…database that can be good to use when doing R&D.

      Sorry if this isn’t very coherent…I’m meant to be asleep…

      Also always happy to hear about weird quirks of evolution!

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        10 months ago

        Oh I’m sorry. I’m not trying to make you feel like I think you’re ignorant or something. I’m basically looking for an excuse to talk about a topic I enjoy.

        Again, my apologies if I made you feel talked down to or anything negative.