Comments on: Flights of fancy: can we unravel the mystery of flight? https://futurumcareers.com/flights-of-fancy-can-we-unravel-the-mystery-of-flight?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=flights-of-fancy-can-we-unravel-the-mystery-of-flight Know What You Want To Be Mon, 03 Apr 2023 15:18:22 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Ignác Ogocse https://futurumcareers.com/flights-of-fancy-can-we-unravel-the-mystery-of-flight#comment-13305 Sat, 04 Mar 2023 11:17:29 +0000 https://futurumcareers.com/?p=45968#comment-13305 “What is the use of ‘half a wing’?
Just as a young bird flies slowly as its wings grow, extinct species may have evolved slowly as they acquired larger and stronger wings through natural selection.”

To do this in artificial selection you need to select specifically /e.g. breed dogs with bigger and stronger legs/, how did natural selection select for this when natural selection does not select systematically for a particular trait! Then how does it select for the development of a particular body part, in this case the wing? Moreover, if the direction and intensity of the selection pressure is constantly changing in an unpredictable way, how does the wing evolve in the face of constant changes in selection pressure?

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