• flora_explora@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    Maybe it evolved from a predatory ancestor and didn’t get selected for different position of the eyes?

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      2 months ago

      We know from Big Bird’s extended family that his species has a wide spread of individual variation, and given that none of them reside in the wild none of them are likely to suffer predation due to what would otherwise be a mal-adaptation, providing a springboard for even more genetic variation from generation to generation.

      Just look at how wildly different looking specific humans can be from one another, even within a single community.