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Al_Rascala t1_ivdjgaj wrote

Reply to comment by WeirdMemoryGuy in Insects get stuck in a spider's web, why doesn't a spider get stuck in its own web? by Koning_Health

Would the difference not be based on the mechanisms by which selection is carried out? Natural being the genome mixing via sexual reproduction that is common to most multicellular animals, artificial being direct manipulation of the genome via various tools?

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Training_Ad_2086 t1_ive7p42 wrote

The human beings (us) that are doing genome manipulation are also created by evolution , hence this genome editing is something we evolved to do.

There are aquatic animals that can change their biological sex while alive, it's the evolution taking its course.

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jqbr t1_iveidr0 wrote

No, it's not something we evolved to do ... that we can do it is a side effect of adaptations, it's not an adaptation itself.

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