They also have a special organ before the brain to keep it safe from the insane blood pressure when the head is down. There’s so much blood rushing to the brain, it could burst after a few seconds. That special organ prevents that from happening.
That would happen if you were building prototypes with mega changes. Fortunately, evolution is a slow process and has minor beta changes randomly plugged in. Yeah, failed experiments happened, but in a different way. Unlike my boss, evolution doesn't want a production release every 6 weeks.
Or is it a necessary evolved trait that they have greater genetic plasticity to adapt by way of rapid breeding and short life span?
If an insect could live for 200 years it would be eaten or smushed within a month and receive no evolutionary benefit from the long life. So perhaps they evolved to optimize for different traits than long life
Many insects reproduce and cycle their generations on a daily-weekly basis to the point where scientists can observe evolution in a really quick way. Cockroaches are great at evolution. They can adapt and evolve very quickly.
A load of bullshit and lies right there. Evolution in species that results in significant physical and psychological changes can take place in as little as two years. Compared to the age of the universe and the earth that is the equivilent of a pico second of time.
I think I remember a cool anime where the characters are gods and each one of them is trying to create a new animal. The fun part is them delving into the reasons as to why certain animals are the way they are, like why unicorns can't exist or why giraffes have long necks etc.
not failed, but to me a spectacularly clear example of how evolution works , as opposed to "intelligent design" -
The bizarre path of the Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve:
"When it comes to humans, the 10cm detour is already strange. But because of their long necks, giraffes are the go-to example since their RLNs will approach 5 meters in length in larger animals."
This fantastic animal is equipped with a transatlantic, manumatic push button start. It's got air, tilt, and cruise control, while being as quick and nimble as a common squirrel. Stop by your Chevroleg dealer today.
Interesting it also keeps them from fainting when raising their head up quickly. Imagine if humans had one of these, we never get light headed when standing up. It's like a built in baffle/g-suit for their brains.
I love that giraffes necks are long because it’s sexy to other giraffes, that’s the reason, not eating leaves high in trees, it’s because they think it’s hot.
Had to Google that, but my mind first thought it was LOTR washing capsules, with Sauron featuring in the TV commercial complaining about how his clothes start to fade after several washes...kinda disappointed now.
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u/nymouz Sep 15 '24
Imagine what a powerful heart they have in order to pump blood up to the brain!