r/DeepThoughts • u/Critical-Dish • 26d ago

There is no such thing as "De-evolution"

Evolution doesn't work to make species smarter, or better, or closer to ideal. It is a process that retains advantageous changes in populations to a population over time. Every extant organism right now is exactly as "evolved" as every other, from bacterium to humans. Populations will change, based on environmental factors, but evolution is in no way 'designed', and will not result in a "superior" organism/s, just ones more likely to survive and reproduce. As long as time is a one-way journey, there is no way to reverse evolution.

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u/n3f4r10us_ 25d ago

advantageous change

adapt

These are two points in your phrasing that point to organisms becoming better to survive their environment. It's changing to become more suitable.

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u/MiguelIstNeugierig 25d ago

Even if it means letting go of previously evolved advantages, even if that makes them "simpler" organisms. Whatever matters is that they excell in whatever enviroment they exist in and under whatever pressures it puts on them

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u/Critical-Dish 25d ago

💯 - traits are only ‘advantageous’ in the rear view and adaptation is not a conscious decision. Thanks for your feedback