>>5131162 If your home environment is erased by pyroclastic flow because of a series of volcano eruptions, then no matter what type of incredible beast you are, your species is over.
>>5131162 It takes serious luck like distant hybridization+back crossing, viral gene transfer, and repeated major non-fatal genetic abnormalities to generate orphan genes and drive macro-evolution. Hence it works fastest on short lived, fecund lifeforms.
But some species literally can not evolve naturally and were the result of tampering by another species. Like humans, who “evolved” the kidneys of an aquatic mammal (for no reason) and an entirely new bone structure, novel brain that is both larger and more complex, and novel skin for the entire genus in record time, somehow became biologically compatible with pigs, struggle to recognize themselves as apes, and notoriously have stories from the dawn of their species describing themselves as the creations of a group of larger, smarter beings that resemble humans but came from the sky.
If we naturally evolved it would take as long as it did for theropods to become birds.
>>5131162 >be antelope >be born with all the best genes possible for your species >just happen to be found by a hyena 30 seconds later Get naturally selected idiot
i feel like 80% of humanities problems is we had bad luck and some caveman shitter passed on the bald gene just right before it managed to manifest and make him unfuckable
>>5131162 Good luck is when a random mutation improves the individual. Bad luck is when the mutations make the individual worse or when an improved individual dies before being able to reproduce. If you define luck this way it's pretty central to evolution.
Most life evolved naturally. Humans clearly did not. And there is ZERO evidence they did. Transitional forms have a hard cutoff between them and us. They would, however, have made good stock for creating modern humans.
The sumerian creation “myth” and accounts of the abzu were only lightly fictionalized through the ignorance and mental simplicity of the people at the time.