• Nycto@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    I don’t know that it would matter much as long as there is sexual selection rather than natural selection. For instance, if a random cross section of a population dies, then there’s no evolution because there’s no reason that the survivors lived to pass on genetics. Is that not correct?

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      24 days ago

      A one time random die off of the population is too small of a time scale, likely. While it is possible for mutations to occur that don’t confer survival advantage, those likely get mixed and blended out of the gene pool. Evolution requires traits that provide sustained advantages to emerge over long periods of time and for those without those traits to fail to reproduce.