28Jun 2025 by Post

Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

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This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Source
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05Sep 2023 by Post

What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

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What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Source
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