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Comment by heavyset_go

> "It's not a big disadvantage to survival" can't be the explanation for a trait

Why not? Honest question.

Intuitively, I'd say that there are plenty of traits that propagate as long as they aren't expensive in terms of genetic survival. It's the nature of random genetic mutation, random traits will develop and some of them won't really affect survival and may propagate.

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