Evolutionary Perfection: Why Change What Works?

Evolutionary Perfection: Why Change What Works?
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The ultimate evolutionary flex! This meme captures the hilarious truth about "living fossils" like crocodiles and crabs that basically said "nah, we're good" to major evolutionary changes for MILLIONS of years. While mammals were out there trying every wild body plan imaginable, these creatures perfected their design and just... stopped. Crocodilians have remained virtually unchanged for 200+ million years, and crabs are so perfectly designed that evolution keeps circling back to their body plan (it's called carcinization - nature's obsession with turning things into crabs). Meanwhile, sharks and horseshoe crabs are sitting in the evolutionary waiting room like "first time?" They've been crushing it since before dinosaurs! Talk about nailing it on the first try!

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