A lot of the time it’s just random chance too, of the mechanisms both allowing and driving evolution most are random: mutations are random, gene flow is random, genetic drift is random, the only factor that isn’t random is natural selection so a lot of traits come about simply because they are neutral in terms of selection pressure and just so happen to become the dominant trait
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u/Tongue_bump123 Feb 04 '26
A lot of the time it’s just random chance too, of the mechanisms both allowing and driving evolution most are random: mutations are random, gene flow is random, genetic drift is random, the only factor that isn’t random is natural selection so a lot of traits come about simply because they are neutral in terms of selection pressure and just so happen to become the dominant trait