In NOVA Evolution Series, Biological Novelties “Arrive” as if Ordered from DoorDash

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The question of how bodies are actually built remains as unclear at the end of these 54 minutes as it was at the beginning. Source
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Independent Origins of Muscular Hydrostats Are Another Conundrum for Evolution

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How does Professor Naughton explain this baffling similarity? He invokes the fallacy that a physical constraint compels natural selection to create a solution. Source
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