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how to organisms know what to mimic? like butterflies can have the pattern of eyes on them to deter predators but how did they even get that in the first place? is it like a vague eye-like pattern showed up one day and those had better survival rates causing it to be prominent through natural selection?
they don’t! there’s no actual brains behind the operation per se, simple patterns gradually evolve into more complex ones over time, like you say, due to what we call selection pressure!
so say that you have a field of plain yellow butterflies.
ordinary, completely boring, nothing special about them.
we’re going to expect that all of these yellow butterflies will have a roughly equal chance of being captured and devoured alive by birds, with some corrective leeway for avian mishaps and dumb luck!
and lets say this continues for 100 butterfly generations, spanning a century of realtime. in that span, a random mutation occurs that gives one of the butterflies patches of additional melanin on its wings, resulting in small spots!
a very slight difference, sure, but birds are sensitive to environmental changes and this is a new and strange thing in our meadow, so we’ll say that these spots give our special butterfly a 20% survival boost by startling birds when they come in for the kill. if our initial spotted butterfly makes it, its offspring, if they have this mutation, also have the increased survival boost!
and if we fast-forward our meadow another 100 butterfly generations, the spotted insects will have outcompeted and replaced the original plain-winged butterflies due to being slightly better at not getting murdered by birds all the time.
but UH-oh! what’s this?
at this point, the birds are starting to catch wise to this trick! a bird that can see through the butterfly spot defense has a better chance of getting a meal, which is now putting pressure on the bird population to develop this behavior!
so what’s a poor butterfly to do?
ESCALATE, OF COURSE.
it’s this ongoing arms race between animal populations that drives natural selection, pushing prey species to develop more elaborate and effective defenses while also driving predators to develop counteroffensives! this permanent natural war continues until something upsets the system entirely, like if a meteor slammed down onto our example meadow and set the whole continent on fire.
but before that inevitably happens at some point in the far future, our plain yellow butterfly species will have developed into a whole array of species, each with their own signature alarming, obnoxious, or just plain weird set of patterns and defensive behaviors! including, yes, some terrifyingly lifelike eyespots.
and it’s all down to the magic of random chance!
you might even call it... the butterfly effect.
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there’s a part of elliot page’s interview with oprah i can’t stop thinking about where he talks about the amount of energy he has now (physically, creatively, mentally) because he’s no longer spending every waking moment fighting his panic, deppression and anxiety surrounding his gender. he even says how he can’t remember having this much energy since he was a kid. and i’m just…so happy for him! because u can see it! you can see it in how he’s sitting comfortably and smiling and talking enthusiastically, and god i wish that euphoria and peace on every trans person and every person whose energy is being consumed by invisible struggles they’re facing. i know i hope to find that energy again someday too.
have a nice day :)
There’s apparently a short one-shot manga called “I’m the Main Character of a Harem Manga, but I’m Gay So Every Day Is Hell for Me” that parodies the harem genre and tbh I’m gonna read it for the title alone.
The title feels like something I’d see in a text post online and I think that’s beautiful.
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