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Chapter 2137 Evolution is not about getting stronger (asking for monthly votes!!!)

Chapter 2137 Evolution is not about getting stronger (asking for monthly votes!!!)

The snake bone whip is very long, really long, at least several hundred meters long. This thing is usually wrapped around Scar King and will only be pulled out during a fight. It is also very hard.

This thing is made from the bones of a singing snake. It has its own scientific name within Kingsman, called Titan singing snake.

These are the most active and most populous Titans in the inner world. They have no brains, no special abilities, and nothing special except their terrifying physical strength and the ability to fly.

But it is precisely this unremarkable nature that has allowed them to thrive. They were even once the top predators in the inner world.

There's nothing we can do about it, their numbers are huge and they reproduce quickly.

The strongest among them is the King of the Mingling Snakes. Mingling Snakes are different from other Titans. They are not the kind of Titans that can survive just by eating radiation. These guys are true carnivores. There are not only Titans in the inner world, but also many other messy species.

Although these species have evolved in a mess due to the energy of the Earth's core, they are not Titans. They are part of the entire Earth's core ecosystem. They all eat meat.

Perhaps a long, long time ago, the ancestors of the Titan Singing Snakes, like other Titans, only needed energy to survive. But life always finds a way out, and the energy level of the inner world is not bad compared to ancient times.

But in the final analysis, the inner world is still too small.

In this case, the number of Titans that can survive is limited. It is impossible to reproduce infinitely, which will directly lead to the collapse of the inner world. Therefore, almost all Titan creatures will consciously or unconsciously control their impulse to reproduce. After all, few Titans are really fools.

This is also why most of the Titans in the inner world fall into a long-term sleep. They cannot reproduce, and they don’t have to worry about food and drink. The inner world is not big enough to make trouble, so they have nothing to do except sleep.

In fact, many Titans have not reproduced over the years.

But there are always some Titans who are unwilling to do so.

The singing snake is one of them.

They began to seek new ways out, such as changing their diet or even their lifestyle.

Some failed, as genetically programmed things are still difficult to change. Only the singing snake, due to its large number, did mutate after generations of breeding.

This can be considered a form of artificial selection.

Evolution can be divided into natural selection and artificial selection.

Natural selection is nothing more than saying that if you are not adapted to the environment, you will not be able to find food or you will not be able to resist a certain virus or disease and die. Those who can resist and adapt to the natural environment will survive, and when they survive, their adaptive genes will also be passed down. Over time, the species will gradually change. The evolution of apes into humans also took this route.

This is the law of natural selection. If you can't adapt to the environment, you will die. If you can adapt, you will survive and your genes will survive.

This thing looks simple, but it is actually not complicated. The only drawback is that the time span is long, very, very long!

Millions of years were easy.

And if things go wrong, they will be directly exterminated. Of course, the Ming Snake Clan will not do that.

Therefore, human intervention can only be carried out by the original Titan Snake.

It's just like breeding betta fish.

Although only 6 to 8 centimeters long, there seems to be endless potential hidden in the body of the betta fish. As long as they are properly bred, they can always appear in a variety of amazing colors.

Betta fish have always been another popular pet besides cats and dogs. These small animals, with an average length of about 6 to 8 cm, seem to be full of endless colors. Almost any color that humans can imagine can appear on a betta fish.

Moreover, many species of betta fish are very, very beautiful, with flowing fins and tail fins. They swim in the water like a ball of colorful flame, which is very, very gorgeous.

But what’s interesting is that the colorful bodies of today’s bettas can almost be said to be the result of deliberate breeding by humans. Most wild bettas do not have such rich and gorgeous body colors, and their fins are generally shorter and their temperaments are gentler.

Recently, a study took a genetic analysis approach to try to find out when humans began to deliberately breed fighting fish, and further observe the impact of human domestication on the genes of organisms.

After analyzing and comparing the genes of wild and captive betta fish, biologist Yang Miquan and others from Columbia University in the United States speculated that humans began to consciously breed and domesticate betta fish about 1 years ago, making betta fish one of the earliest fish that humans began to consciously domesticate. After a long period of domestication, the "aggressive" side of betta fish has been continuously magnified, which has not only become an important impression of betta fish, but also the physiological mechanism behind it has become the research focus of many scientists. "Artificially bred betta fish are very aggressive," said Yang Miquan. "You can't put two male betta fish in the same aquarium. They will attack each other until one of them dies."

In the early days of Thailand, catching and watching fighting betta fish was actually an important entertainment for rural children. They would go to the wild, such as paddy fields, catch wild betta fish, and then put them in the same bowl of water to watch them fight.

Soon, someone realized the business opportunity behind it and began to turn fighting fish into a gambling industry similar to cockfighting. This attracted the attention of the King of Siam at the time, who imposed taxes and regulated it. By the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, people's views on fighting fish began to change gradually, and aquarium experts began to focus on how to breed fighting fish with more and brighter body colors.

Transformed into an ornamental fish

As fighting fish gradually spread to Europe and America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, aquarium experts from all over the world no longer focused on breeding stronger and more aggressive fighting fish, but instead turned to breeding more beautiful and colorful fighting fish, which made them more and more popular in the Western world. Looking back on this period of history, Yang Miquan said: "This period of history shaped the ornamental fighting fish we see today - beautiful fish with bad tempers."

It is worth mentioning that although there are more than 70 known species of betta fish, the colorful betta fish people see in aquarium stores are almost all of the same species, that is, "Thai betta fish." Researchers have found that the physical characteristics of betta fish that people pay the most attention to are actually controlled by a few genes, so it is not difficult to breed the expected appearance of betta fish. The video shows a betta fish with the three major national flag colors of Thailand, blue, white, and red. In the process of analyzing the genes of betta fish, researchers also found that the reason why aquarium experts can easily breed various betta fish is mainly because the physical characteristics of betta fish that most humans pay the most attention to are actually controlled by only a few genes. Therefore, as long as there is a slight change, the appearance of betta fish will also change, allowing aquarium experts to breed betta fish that meet their imagination without complicated breeding methods. Even betta fish with the three major national flag colors of Thailand, blue, white, and red, have been successfully bred.

However, the researchers also pointed out that these colorful betta fish are basically the result of artificial breeding, and it is unlikely to see equally colorful betta fish in the wild.

However, during the research process, the researchers unexpectedly discovered that these artificially bred betta fish and wild betta fish showed signs of hybridization, which was most likely due to someone releasing betta fish into the wild at will.

This kind of breeding has been going on for generations, resulting in the fact that the truly pure and pure species of Betta fish are now almost extinct.

The real original species of betta fish is gray and ugly. It is through human intervention and breeding from generation to generation that it has become what humans want.

The same is true for the singing snake.

In order to continue its race, the original Titan Singing Snake began to actively select its offspring. Those offspring that could only eat energy were bitten to death, while those that could eat flesh and blood survived and continued to select.

Through generations of selection and breeding.

The Earth's Core Snake appeared.

But this also has disadvantages... and they are very big. For example, the real singing snake is huge, can not only fly, but also attack with energy, has a long lifespan, and is very intelligent. But the singing snake after selection... well, how to say it, it is much smaller, its lifespan is much shorter, and its brain is even more difficult to describe, it is just at the level of a pure beast.

But the problem is that they reproduce quickly and do not need to consume radiation, flesh and blood can provide them with nutrition.

That's it.

The law of nature: survival of the fittest. It is the survival of the fittest, not the survival of the strong or the survival of the weak.

Just because you are strong doesn't mean you can continue.

In the history of life on Earth, countless powerful species have become extinct. The word evolution makes people feel that it is a process of becoming stronger. Indeed, in cartoons, evolution means becoming stronger, such as evolving from Magikarp to Gyarados, but in the real world, evolution is not for becoming stronger, but for adapting to the environment. Because if a creature wants to survive, it must coordinate with the natural environment in which it lives. If it cannot keep up with the pace of the environment, then there is only one ending waiting for it, extinction. However, it is very difficult to keep up with the pace of the environment, because environmental changes are difficult to predict, and organisms have no way to make changes in advance before the environment changes. There is also a more important point, that is, evolution is not an active behavior, but a passive one.

If a mutation is beneficial to improving the adaptability of an organism to the environment, it will be preserved through natural selection. On the contrary, if a mutation is not conducive to survival, it will be eliminated by the environment. It is precisely because evolution is passive and lagging that the survival of organisms is very difficult. For example, increasing the size of an animal can prevent it from being hunted by other beasts, but the increased size will make the animal sensitive to climate change. If the climate and environment change suddenly, the evolutionary advantage of the large size will turn into a disadvantage.

It can be seen that there is no absolute strength in nature, only the ability to adapt to the environment. Therefore, the essence of evolution is not to become stronger, but to better adapt to the environment. Precisely because the essence of evolution is to adapt to the environment, some organisms will evolve in a seemingly weak direction, such as early mammals. At that time, it was still the era of dinosaur rule. It was unrealistic for mammals to rely on becoming stronger to overthrow the rule of dinosaurs, so they made themselves smaller and smaller to avoid being hunted by dinosaurs. The petite body also gave them super adaptability to the environment, so in the subsequent disaster, the dinosaurs became extinct, and the mammals survived.

The most typical example is the sea spider. The sea spider has been able to survive on Earth for 5 million years, not because it is so powerful, nor because it has a smart brain, but because its survival strategy is to lie flat. The sea spider is not a spider, but is named because it looks very similar to a spider. It also has another name: the worm. The body of the sea spider is very small, only about 0.5 cm, but this small body has 8 feet with hooks. The ocean is a dangerous place. From 5 million years ago to the present, countless fierce predators have been born and destroyed in it. How do sea spiders avoid being hunted? They don't need to hide at all, because from ancient times to the present, no marine creatures will prey on sea spiders, because their bodies are just shells, and there is no meat at all. For any marine creature, it is difficult to swallow, so they have never had natural enemies. With this unique advantage, this small creature with no fighting power can continue in the ocean. With safety guaranteed, the only remaining problem is food. Sea spiders have a wide range of food sources, whether algae or plankton, as long as they contain nutrients, they will eat them. Therefore, in the past 5 million years, they have never had to worry about food. It can be seen that in the face of harsh natural environments, sometimes lying down and playing badly may also be an excellent survival strategy.

The Snake seems to be giving up, transforming itself from a noble Titan monster into a special carnivorous beast.

But look at them now. The other Titans are all asleep and won't show up for thousands of years, but the Song Serpents are everywhere. They have become the top predators in the inner world. Although they are a little stupid, at least they survived and are thriving.

Isn’t this also a kind of victory?

This kind of thing is not shameful or not, the right thing to do is to survive.

But the original Ming Snake was still alive until it was discovered by Scar King.

Scar King led the entire tribe of giant apes to hunt down the last Titan Snake... What's interesting is that its descendants had no intention of helping. After all, they were all wild beasts. Although they were slightly smarter than ordinary beasts, that was all.

They don't understand complicated things like ancestors.

So in the end, the Titan Snake died.

Then it became the snake whip in Scar King's hand.

This thing is a Titan's bone, you can imagine how hard it is.

In addition, Scar King creatively tied the tendons of the Ming Snake inside, making this thing not only strong but also extremely flexible. Coupled with the reinforcement of the Black Death Sword... it's hard to say how to break this thing!