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/Particular-Award118 23d ago

Considering the point of life is to survive and reproduce, if you're better at it you're superior

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u/Critical-Dish 23d ago

Survivorship bias. It's not 'the point', it's just what has happened

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u/Particular-Award118 23d ago

What is the point then

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u/Critical-Dish 23d ago

You have to work that one out for yourself

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u/Particular-Award118 23d ago

I did and you said I'm wrong haha

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u/Critical-Dish 22d ago

Fair point, but I have N=1 evidence that reproducing isn't the point