You provided two great examples, the recurrent laryngeal nerve and vagus nerve as well as hiccups, eye colors, some anemias, like sickle-cell or iron deficiency are others. However, your misunderstanding about what evolutionary adaptation (or more accurately, natural selection) is doesn’t mean somebody else has to prove you wrong, just because you define something incorrectly.
And all I pointed out was that your description of evolution by natural selection was wrong, the natural selection process doesn’t care about the existence of things that don’t decrease reproductive fitness, so those features won’t be selected against. So saying the fact a foreskin still exists therefore it must be useful isn’t supported by the way genetic evolution by natural selection works.
In fact hiccups are a really good comparison. I’d say everyone had or will have hiccups at least once in their life. For some people they may even get stuck with them for an extended time.
But they are adaptation from an amphibian ancestor of ours that needed them to be able to transition from breathing in water to breathing on land. (See your inner fish by Neil shubin)
You provided two great examples, the recurrent laryngeal nerve and vagus nerve as well as hiccups, eye colors, some anemias, like sickle-cell or iron deficiency are others. However, your misunderstanding about what evolutionary adaptation (or more accurately, natural selection) is doesn’t mean somebody else has to prove you wrong, just because you define something incorrectly.
And all I pointed out was that your description of evolution by natural selection was wrong, the natural selection process doesn’t care about the existence of things that don’t decrease reproductive fitness, so those features won’t be selected against. So saying the fact a foreskin still exists therefore it must be useful isn’t supported by the way genetic evolution by natural selection works.
Sources aren’t even hard to find:
Don’t think they expected a reply like this lol… Evolution is fucking awesome
In fact hiccups are a really good comparison. I’d say everyone had or will have hiccups at least once in their life. For some people they may even get stuck with them for an extended time.
But they are adaptation from an amphibian ancestor of ours that needed them to be able to transition from breathing in water to breathing on land. (See your inner fish by Neil shubin)