How does nature make animals look like the environment. For example, how did so-called stick insects or leaf-insects obtained the way they look?

Question

You know, in general it’s called mimicry. But how does it work even though all these creatures only perceive their surroundings with the eyes and so on. Like…just how it knows the way these creatures should be changed to be less visible.

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Answer 1

This is flawed logic, nature didn’t do anything. The creatures that blended in with their environment weren’t seen by predators and therefore survived to reproduce, leading that trait to carry forward.

Nature doesn’t “do” anything, things just happen in response to environment.