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What Is Natural Selection?
A video circulating on Twitter last week shows an Iranian spider-tailed horned viper and the snake sort of sways its tail seductively. A bird swoops in to pick up the spider and then the snake turns around and steps up the bird. Now, how on earth does a spider-mimicking tail evolve? Richard Dawkins points out that this is nonsense for lots of reasons.