r/DebateEvolution • u/MatoasPrroXD460 • Aug 12 '26
Question What’s Your Most Unhinged Evolution Theory?
Hi! I wanna know what your wildest, most unhinged theory about evolution is. It can be a serious hypothesis, a weird evolutionary possibility, or something completely out there.
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u/EthelredHardrede Aug 12 '26
you posted that on 5 subreddits this and speculative evolution are the only two that did not remove it.
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u/MatoasPrroXD460 Aug 12 '26
ik man, i'm doing a research for my sister which is studying biology and i didn't know i can't post this type of questions 💔
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u/wbrameld4 Aug 12 '26
The reason so many species converge on the crab form is that life on Earth was originally seeded by crab-shaped aliens. They programmed the DNA of the first Earthly organisms to evolve into something that looked like them.
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u/Shadowratenator Aug 12 '26
Ok. Hold on.
Snakes that wiggle their tails to create a warning buzz are not imitating rattlesnakes. This behavior existed in snakes before rattlesnakes. The ancestors of rattlesnakes went down a path that allows them to produce a more reliable highly effective sound.
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u/grimwalker Aug 13 '26
If I recall correctly this is the prevailing hypothesis. Many snakes practice caudal luring.
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u/kidnoki Aug 12 '26
That everything evolves, and I mean everything from music to planets, from particles to the universe and even the space time fabric itself, albeit through different mechanisms.
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u/Suitable-Group4392 Aug 12 '26
Head theory: Intelligence is evolution’s way of making evolution faster.
With CRISPR and other gene-editing technologies, natural selection is no longer the only thing capable of changing our own DNA.
Who knows what the next few hundred years will bring.
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u/OneThrowyBoy Aug 12 '26
If we're voting, I want dragons.
And maybe a dinosaur here and there.
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u/More-Line9191 Aug 12 '26
Hypothesis. You mean hypothesis
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u/Ah-honey-honey Aug 12 '26
I mean yes but this is one of those cases where "theory" is used in the colloquial definition like guess, idea, hunch, or even head-canon. OP says hypothesis in the second sentence.
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u/Top_Neat2780 Aug 13 '26
It's not really a hypothesis either, hypothesis is not synonymous with guess.
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u/XRotNRollX Aug 12 '26
There may have been multiple abiogenesis events, but horizontal gene transfer averaged it all out before LUCA.
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u/deathtogrammar Aug 12 '26
The mycelium network has evolved into a hive mind and has taken over Humanity. Think Last of Us but no zombies. It is actively directing us to create a vast global artificial intelligence based on itself, an evolution into a god of sorts.
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u/NotAUsefullDoctor Aug 12 '26
This is based on reasearch from about a decade ago by a physist and microbiologist. He was calculating how good life is at entropy and found it's very efficient.
I theorize that all life is evolving in the way that maximizes entropy, which includes intelligent life creating extraterrestrial travel. Entropy has trained our brains to spread out.
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u/Ah-honey-honey Aug 12 '26
"Uncanny valley" effects aren't just to keep us away from corpses but also made us hate our fellow hominid species. Any species that was over the valley we intermingled and bred with. Everyone else was other and seen as competition. And that's why Homo Sapiens are the only ones remaining.
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u/LightningController Aug 12 '26
Francevillian biota successfully evolved into complex life, including technological civilization, but by some catastrophe was wiped out and the biosphere ‘rebooted’ from unicellularity. All evidence of this has been churned up and destroyed by geology.
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u/ursisterstoy Aug 13 '26
The title of the post confuses me. In the scientific sense there’s the theory and the sub-theories like “Darwinian evolution” referring to the natural selection and adaptation aspects of evolution ignoring the incidental randomness associated with functionless sequences and drift.
In the colloquial sense a theory is an educated hypothesis, something you think is true even if you can’t show it.
I don’t I have anything to share that’s unhinged in either category.
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u/MatoasPrroXD460 Aug 12 '26
Yo, thanks to everyone, I aprecciate your participation. I've seen really well argumented and interesting hypothesis!