Originally posted by Blacknad:
It seems more ideal. How many mutations in the big bad world never saw the light of day because the carrier became food?
Blacknad.
that is the point of evolution. if it gives and advantage, it would not become food, most likely.
let me illustrate the point with a joke i heard.
two hikers were walking thought the plains of africa, when they spotted a single lion on the prowl. it also spotted them, and charged. one hiker began running, while the other stopped and tied his running shoes.
the first holler over his sholders, "you cant think that will make it possible for you to our run the lion do you?"
the second replied, "i dont have to out run HIM."
two variation of a speices are in the field when they are chased by a preditor. the best does not have to be able to our run the preditor. which ever does leaves his mark on the genes pool by reaching the female alive first. if there are no preditors, there is no race. old tried and true will win the race.
