Comment on Stubborn, maybe, but if it ain't broke
AppleTea@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago“Ain’t broke” is a lot better of a description than “fittest”.
Evolution selects for the first thing that happens to work. It’ doesn’t have to work particularly well, only well enough to not die from it.
It’s also a local maxima trap. To shift to chewing, they would have to change both bite behaviour, and teeth structure. The intermediate stage is a lot worse than either style.
Even if chewing was the better option, it’s inaccessible from the crocs current method.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
Passing on genes is successful enough for evolution.
morto@piefed.social 18 hours ago
Like male cochineals, who can’t feed themselves after reaching adulthood, but are able to reproduce before dying of hunger. Evolution can be really cruel.