Do insects evolve? If so, what has more evolutionary potential, an insect or a mammal? based on attitude, survival skills and various given abilities; for example, a spider can build a web, a bird can fly, and so on.

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æther !B.0X4iZ/uM Fri Mar 4 19:55:15 2011 No.2644175 [Reply] [Original]

Do insects evolve? If so, what has more evolutionary potential, an insect or a mammal? based on attitude, survival skills and various given abilities; for example, a spider can build a web, a bird can fly, and so on.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 4 19:58:15 2011 No.2644200 Every living thing participates in the process of evolution. "evolutionary potential" is meaningless, given the right circumstances one species could evolve into anything else in enough time.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 4 19:58:15 2011 No.2644204 insects have evolved into new species perhaps more than any other animal the number of beetles alone is absurd

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 4 20:00:15 2011 No.2644215 You're so fucking dumb.

Anonymous Fri Mar 4 20:03:15 2011 No.2644240

because insects breed in such large numbers, they can have mutated offspring more often. The mutated offspring that survive then pass on their genes causing evolution.

Insects are probably the quickest evolving creatures aside from microbes.

Although I would like to know how the fuck Botflies, and Jewel Wasps, Spiders that shoot acid strong enough to melt skin, and Japanese Hornets evolved
Also that fungus that zombifies ants and makes them crawl up plants and blow up their heads

How in the fuck did they reach the point where these traits were neccesary and desirable to their species? I mean seriously, what the fuck.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 4 20:06:15 2011 No.2644259 File: 47 KB, 459x450, daemon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] DAMNIT GUYS I THOUGHT YOU WERE GONNA IGNORE THIS ONE I THOUGHT YOU WERE GONNA DO IT DAMNIT

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 4 20:06:15 2011 No.2644266 >>2644240 >How in the fuck did they reach the point where these traits were neccesary and desirable to their species? I mean seriously, what the fuck. Fascinating, isn't it? >æther Get the fuck out already.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 4 20:09:15 2011 No.2644278 >aether making a science thread on /sci/ >singletearofhappyness.jpg I would assume that insects that live in fairly isolated groups would evolve faster then mamals, considering they breed/die much faster.

Anonymous Fri Mar 4 20:14:15 2011 No.2644302
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>>2644215

This. There is no such thing as up or down in evolution, better or worse. Evolution doesn't just grant a species "powers" at random.

The question displays such a fundamental lack of understand of what Darwinian Evolution is, that it can't even be answered.

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