For example killing cockroaches makes them harder to kill or killing them with baygon makes them adapt if they’re already dead?
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During WW2, the Americans were interested in seeing how they could fix their planes to better survive gunfire. The planes that came back typically had been shot through the middle or the wing tips, but not mid wing. Seeing this, the Americans tried reinforcing the areas that were shot, but to no avail. they paid mathematician Abraham wald to inspect the data. He concluded that the planes that returned survived, meaning that instead of reinforcing the places that had been shot, we should instead reinforce the places that hadn’t. This is because none of the planes that came back were shot in the middle of the wing. Wald inferred that the planes that *never made it back* must have been shot in the places the surviving planes hadn’t. This is called survivorship bias, and it’s incredibly related to evolution.
The animal that dies doesn’t adapt, but the other animals that did survive live on. Their offspring have reinforced mid wings, whereas the one that died reinforced the middle and the wing tips
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