If evolution is so great, why don't I have wings?

Question

I bet I would be a lot fitter to survive and pass on my genes if I did. So I guess evolution is bunk, huh?

Answer 1

The smarter monkeys already evolved enough to leave this planet. Were the only dummies left out of the species that can't figure out how to advance.

Answer 2

you don't seem to have that great a brain, either ;-)

anyway. Evolution works not from some magic alien trying to add some major design feature to you, but by mutations potentially adding a new feature, and if the feature gives you some advantage, over time it spreads.

wings? wings evolved from arms. so maybe the first mutation would give you fingers partly glued together (some babies are born like that, though it's more frog-like than bird-like). that mutation would be a disadvantage: it would make you look funny, ugly, and make your hands less efficient at using higher-end tools. so the trait would disappear.

whereas, if you're a feathered, small, running dinosaur, climbing on trees to escape predators, and one newborn ends up developping longer feathers on the arms and/or longer arms, this makes you a better climber, and a more graceful faller, so it is an advantage, and spreads.

Now back to the webbed feet / hands seen on some (rare) newborns. If for some reason a large area was invaded by water, and human beings could not move out of it for some reason, so that swimming would become an important means of locomotion, then those rare newborns would develop an easier life than the non-webbed humans, and probably be more successful at reproduction. And within not that many generations, especially if you allowed one guy to fertilise many females (as is the case in most ape societies), the people with webbed feet and hands would have become common.

Answer 3

um... im assuming your joking. evolution is death and heretity, and random mutations (variation).. sometimes a mutation is good, and organisms with it survive better in thier enviroment, and therefore pass it along to offspring. what doesnt work dies. every species has variation within it.. not every individual is physically the same. so when the enviroment changes some die and some live ... thats it... just add millions and millions of years and there you go. an example of variation in humans, among thousands of others, that people of african decent have different shaped red blood cells. evolution has nothing to do with what you think might be "neat". its about what works. not about what would be perfect. evolution happens all over the place people! lemme guess, you think god is just creating new types of viruses all the time? why do you think your doctor tells you to not stop antibiotics until the whole bottle is gone? gimmie a break.

Answer 4

Humans have been able to fly without actual wings like birds, in aircraft or with gliders. If survival had meant needing wings you would have them. Your ears could have grown into wings or the flab under your arms could have caused you to fly in a high wind. You know things like that.

Answer 5

Evolution is the process by which we inherit a gene that ensures our survival. If the ground suddenly turned to lava and anyone left on it would burn up, those left alive would probable eventually acquire wings. Evolution isnt to make things pretty and neat, its to keep them alive.

Answer 6

Hey monkey, I thought everyone knew: Girls get the wings, guys get horns.

All life forms are consistent with possible interaction with the rest of the biosphere. Wings did not help the mosquito that I was able to swat.

Be thankful for the highly developed gray matter that you do have. It allowed you to ask such a question. No bird or pterodactyl ever was able to do so.

Answer 7

Well... when you add another dimension to something it can take away from the others. For example, the lack of swimming or flying cars because it would be too inefficient when two separate vehicles can do the same things for less. Much like birds flying and humans walking -- 2 different vehicles.

If everybody could survive perfectly nobody would ever die. The environment doesn't want you to live forever. Do you thing and die (to make fertilizer). (all due respect)

Answer 8

Probably Darwin felt the ape deep inside his soul and those who believed him feel the ape inside themselves rofl that is why they still repeat his stupid theory of evolution as though mere competition could produce from the same animal ancestor a winged bird a winding snake , a multilegged insect and man.. rofl

Answer 9

Yeah. I think it is a lie. And even Charles Darwin himself said that his theory was just a guess anyway. Not facts. It was taken way out of context. But yes, wings would be nice...

Answer 10

Well, lets see...we don't need wisdom teeth,as we don't crush bones an eat em', we don't need the appendix to collect stones to grind bone and seeds, we are less hairy than we were, because we cloth ourselves. We use more of our brains than we did, stand straighter, and utilize mathematics to create wings so there is no need for our body to evolve so we can fly. Man has evolved intellectually at such a fast rate we don't need to evolve physically to improve. If you had wings , where the hell would you fly too? I have a feeling that if early on there was a need for man to grow wings ...he would have.

Answer 11

Actually, you might be naturally selected against due to the danger posed by aircraft, not to mention that your appearance would be considered freakish and women would not choose to mate with you. Also, existing flying creatures have filled their niche, so there isn't room for convergent evolution into birdlike creatures.