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		tcgv on March 21, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If the heart is a muscle, why doesn't it ever get ... Not unless having vast amounts of mitochondria is a competitive survival/reproductive advantage favoring natural selection of individuals in their environments

TheSpiceIsLife on March 21, 2020 [–]

This resonates with my understanding: evolution is lazy, not optimal.

Or: evolution is lazily optimising. Survival doesn’t imply perfection, as it is my definition a process.

And the more optimised an organism is the more fragile it’s continued existence.

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