eli5 Why aren’t animals that breed with only the strongest male complete freaks of nature.

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Like why aren’t lions total roid monsters if only the strongest male gets to breed the females?

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Because “strongest” isn’t the whole story. “Best able to survive on little food”, “best camo”, “fastest”, and a bunch of other things go into it. Evolution cares about ability to pass genes on and have those genes continue to pass on in future generations, not the complete optimization of any one trait.

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