How do genes tell a baby turtle to follow the moon to the ocean after birth?
In: Biology
Here is how i imagine it, the turtles that where’nt born with a mutation to look at the “moon” or hear the waves went in a wrong direction and died. The ones that did went on to reproduce. This mistake is a tool to evolution and its the way 90+% of “adaptations” work. I say adaptations with quote marks because its a bad word to describe success by chance, witch is how it really goes. The other % of traits are random mutations that arent bad for you and they stick around just because of aestetics or because some other trait was so good that that one didnt matter for the mating process (silly example: monobrow, i mean what happened there, i guess the guy had amazing hunting skills so he got some ass dispite the face).
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