Gratuitous Grandeur

Selection Sorts What It Cannot Source

A bar-tailed godwit flew 13,560 km from Alaska to Tasmania nonstop: eleven days without landing, eating or drinking. Survival doesn't require that. So where did it come from?

Five cases of engineering beyond necessity:

• Structural color precise to the nanometer
• A spring-loaded strike that boils water
• Molecular motors
• Abstract reasoning
• Whole-body integration

The method: the strongest selection-based explanation goes first, then gets tested. Selection can keep a great design, but it doesn't explain where the design came from.

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Research by Benjamin Louis Horvat, prepared with AI assistance.