Basically i just saw a post about a massive black widow spider living in an electrical box and it got me thinking. Why is growth limited to a “general size” in most cases? Is it just natural genetic code that says ” You will only grow this much and no more”, or does it all depend on stuff like environment, nutrition, risk factors, etc?
In: Biology
Every now and then a massive cow, lion, dog etc is born but usually stands at a massive disadvantage in the wild and never lives long enough to pass on its dna. Natural selection kinda creates a cap on the max size of every animal. If it’s advantageous for them to get bigger then that’ll happen over time but it requires a pretty specific situation. Theoretically any animal can be selectively bred to be giant, like we could have giant house cats or chihuahuas if we put enough time and money into it.
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