>>11157993Evolution doesn't always have (or need) a reason. Example: T-rex. Largest and meanest predator the world has ever seen.
12 meters long
3 meters high
8+ ,metric TONS of sheer killing power
This thing was fucking death on 2 legs.
What did it in? A rock. A fucking rock bitch slapped the whole damned species. Starved them all in months. What survived? The smallest of the underground burrowing mice-like animals.
Evolution is not about being the best, or the smartest, or the strongest. It's about being the fittest to the environment. If the environment gives x a reproductive advantage, now or in the future, then x will survive.
Tl;dr Nature hedges its bets
