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195 | Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Are Birds Learning to Fly?
When we see the birds flying around in ways that seem like fun, to what extent is it training them to be better fliers? To what extent can we say they're just having fun and it's not necessarily improving their reproductive fitness in any way? As an orthodox darwinian, i would have to say something like this. If it were only fun, and they were actually wasting time and wasting energy, then a rival bird that conserved its energy and conserved its time wouldt reproduce it. And so i think there's got to be some kind of added benefit o it, to the fun, such as practice. I don't see why one shouldn't argue about whether
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