Random Gadfly on Nostr: THE EVOLUTION OF THE BUTTERFLY PARADOX As children, most of us become familiar with ...
THE EVOLUTION OF THE BUTTERFLY PARADOX
As children, most of us become familiar with the life cycle of the butterfly. We learn that the butterfly starts out life as an egg laid by an adult. The egg hatches and a larval caterpillar is born. The caterpillar feeds and grows until it sheds its skin and starts the pupal stage of its life. In this stage the larva undergoes radical changes to its body. The legs, wings, and the body of an adult butterfly are formed and after a certain amount of time it emerges.
Here lies the paradox, the life cycle of the butterfly is only perpetuated by the adult mating and then laying its eggs. Consequently, the larva is not the same body configuration as the adult and cannot reproduce. It is separated from the reproductive phase of its life by a massive rearranging of its body in the pupal stage.
How does this rearranging of major body parts happen in an evolutionary paradigm, where changes happen with individual random mutations in DNA?
For the life cycle of the butterfly to exist in evolutionary terms the first larva of the species must make the transition to adult in one clean mutational jump. The pupal stage requires the DNA information to be clear and contain the many changes to form into an adult… to then reproduce. If this process was due to a series of singular random mutations, a vast amount would be detrimental to the larva and would kill it.
How does this change happen via singular random mutations of DNA?
This seems to be an all or nothing conundrum.
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