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[–] Findus_Falke@feddit.org 0 points 1 month ago (26 children)
[–] protist@mander.xyz 0 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I'm going to guess as an island species, it had no natural predators, and therefore the evolutionary pressure for it to have a wide field of view did not exist

[–] fristislurper@feddit.nl 0 points 1 month ago (15 children)

Probably, although there would still need to be some evolutionary pressure for forward facing eyes... I wonder what it is.

[–] wischi@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure for that specific case, but in the general case there doesn't need to be evolutionary pressure for change. If there is no pressure one way or the other random mutations can (and will over time) cause change without environmental reason (genetic drift).

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