>>5131162
Evolution is just a theory

>>5131162
Your mortal mind could never comprehend the profoundities of luck path.

>>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
Imagine how unlucky the species who didn't make it must have been.

>>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

>>5131162
some humans might think you're cute and then grind up 100s of millions of farm animals a year to propagate your species

>>5131162
stochasticity is indeed considered,yes
in Ecology at least

>>5131264
your stochasticity is ergodic

>>5131162
95+% of all the animal and plant species that have ever lived have no living relatives today. So it's really all luck.

>>5131310
>95+% of all the animal and plant species that have ever lived have no living relatives today
all life is related

so you have what we call an ass-number there and you're too stupid to realize it

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>>5131162
if you're very unlucky your species evolves until you're sentient, if you're more fortunate you just float around for 500 million years

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Evolution is a lie

>>5131215
Unless you live in lava

It's like THE main thing bro, the genes don't know they're mutating.
>one chance at consciousness
>born a fucking human

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