why didnt wheels ever evolve as a means of locomation?
2007-01-27 22:50:39 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Er.......wheels are a man-made invention. Some say the wheel is the greatest achievement of mankind.
Have you ever heard the expression....Why re-invent the wheel.....when somebody is trying very hard to solve a problem that don't exist?
2007-01-27 22:56:03 · answer #1 · answered by lou b 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If the wheels are to be alive, they could must have a blood provide to them. yet there is not any longer any way of connecting this up if the wheel is fastened on an axle, because the arteries bringing the blood to the wheel ought to get all knotted up. some tiny creatures stated as microorganisms have rotating factors that would want to bypass each and every of ways round. they are so small that the rotating factors do no longer bypass with any blood. on the grounds that those creatures stay in water, they don't use them as wheels yet as propellers.
2016-12-03 03:39:17 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the wheels are to be alive, they would have to have a blood supply to them. But there is no way of connecting this up if the wheel is mounted on an axle, as the arteries bringing the blood to the wheel would get all tangled up.
Some tiny creatures called microorganisms have rotating parts which can go all the way around. They're so small that the rotating parts don't need any blood. Since these creatures live in water, they don't use them as wheels but as propellers.
2007-01-27 23:01:24 · answer #3 · answered by Gnomon 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, blood and oxygen supply to a spinning axel would be a real trick, and any veins or capillaries would tend to get wrapped up real fast, plus organic bearings would be hard to maintain. and spokes? Forget it. First off, God doesn't do avant garde (platypus excepted), and evolution tends along the lines of suitability for survival. A critter with wheels would just be too high-maintenance to survive either the Fall or the Jungle.
2007-01-27 23:04:08 · answer #4 · answered by rumplesnitz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because wheels are flawed.
If you step on something and hurt your foot, you just don't use that foot for a while so that it can heal. Especially creatures with 4 or more feet use that.
When you're using wheels, that's not possible without actually replacing or removing the wheel.
2007-01-27 23:01:24 · answer #5 · answered by hoohoonick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution does not have the goal of achieving a more complex system from a lower one. It simply adapts an organism to its environment. (This is a very simplistic view of evolution, but works for this question.) Wheels never occured in nature (at least, never gained advantage) because other systems worked well enough.
2007-01-27 23:05:20 · answer #6 · answered by Matthew P 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Roads don't exist in nature. Without a smooth surface to roll on, a wheel is at a selective disadvantage to legs for moving around. Evolution therefore prefers legs to wheels.
Go to newscientist.com, they have some discussion about this topic on their website
2007-01-27 23:19:49 · answer #7 · answered by Norwich 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2014-11-09 20:07:33 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you know how difficult it is to make organic wheels?
I mean give the creator a break they had to create the platypus their imagination was all used up after that!
2007-01-27 22:58:04 · answer #9 · answered by Fiona O 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see wheels when I watch a cat run.
With wheels, you can't jump or leap with dexterity.
2007-01-27 22:59:48 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋