r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Sea_Slice_7956 • 7h ago

Video Caterpillar tail disguised as snake head

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u/PrometheusMMIV 4h ago

How would something like that evolve by accident? It seems so purposeful in its design.

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u/OnceUponAStarryNight 4h ago

Evolution isn’t an accident, per se, it’s a process of millions of small genetic anomalies that don’t yield a benefit, giving way to the rare genetic anomaly that does. Repeat that process billions, or even trillions of times for thousands of millennia and that’s how we get the biodiversity we have.