Natures wonders: 13, 17-year cicadas (Introduction)

by dhw, Saturday, June 01, 2013, 12:03 (3954 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: The longest insect life cycle around. Why this evolved is any bodies guess.-http://www.nature.com/news/long-lived-insects-raise-prime-riddle-1.13080-dhw: My guess is it's just one more invention by one of the countless intelligent genomes that have added their particular squiggle to the higgledy-piggledy bush. Cicada lovers, however, might argue that it is living proof of the cicacentric teleology of evolution.-DAVID: I guess the same would apply to turtles. What a weird branch of the bush they are! I think they were put on Earth to show that Darwinism doesn't work as an explanation for evolution.-Maybe they evolved on Earth to show that the Turellist Theory of Anthropocentric Evolution has turned turtle.


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