If I remember correctly, the genetic package necessary for animal life on land appeared tens of millions of years before land animals did. Obviously, it was costly to carry around such a complex package of instructions that had little or no utility through all those generations. One of many examples of foresight in biological processes.

https://www.science.org/news/2021/0...land-while-they-were-still-swimming-seas

Last edited by anthropic; 09/13/21 08:06 PM.

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