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“Survival of the fittest”
bitch, explain cows
Cows are the most fit for their environment. Their environment being a useful and sustainable food source for humans to cultivate.
Fittest for the purpose of being chosen by farmers to participate in breeding.
In all of my ecology classes they were super specific about re-framing that concept as "survival of the fit enough"
You don't actually have to be the best example of something to have your traits carried along, just good enough to consistently make it to reproductive age and then procreate.
It helps explain a lot of weird survival mechanisms - it doesn't have to be the best way to do things but if it consistently works, then it's good enough. Like the old saying "if it's stupid, but it works, then it's not stupid"
Lol a better example would be "bitch, explain humans" we're the biggest anomaly to this statement. In ecology we refer to our evolutionary perseverance as "survival of the collaborative"
Bulls seem like they are capable of herd defense, they are kept isolated for a reason. Same with roosters and chickens.
Cows are not a natural species