Is that kind of information passed down genetically and if so, how does that work exactly? It seems easier to explain instinctive behaviors in other animals but weaving a perfectly geometric web seems so advanced it’s hard to fathom how that level of knowledge can simply be inherited genetically. Is there something science is missing?
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The same way that ducks and elephants know to line up or migrating birds know to fly in a V formation. Cascading reflexes. When there’s nothing to react to they do one thing that puts things in a certain configuration and then they react to that configuration.
In the case of spiders that configuration is a bunch of threads crossing eachother in the center of a area which they then react to by spiraling that point while laying down thread.
There’s something similar going on with humans and crowds preventing them from getting in eachothers way, which I believe can malfunction and result in that thing where two people try to get out of eachothers way in a door frame and end up undoing eachothers effort, and malls and other retail business have even organized their product layout for the express purpose of tricking this reflex into making you go passed as many of their products as you reasonably can.
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