Episode 26: Evolution and Sexual Perversion (with Jesse Bering)
Very Bad Wizards
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The Importance of Adaptation in Evolution
Andrew Sullivan: Nobody's denying that we're all evolved by natural selection, but doesn't follow from that that every trait that we have is the result of an adaptation. I mean, these are falsifiable questions. If it doesn't work according to the way that evolutionary mechanisms would be hypothesized to work in terms of selective value, then you wouldn't find them working that way. But yeah, there are plenty of things that just simply are here. It's like the color of our blood, for instance. There's any specific reason that it's red. We'll take a break and talk about that.
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