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[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Less evolved as in the product of less evolution. There is such a thing as more and less because more happens over time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

To have "more or less" of something implies the effectiveness of the product is directly caused by the metric being measured.

The amount of time a genotype took to evolve has no bearing on the effectiveness.

There is no such thing as "more/less evolved". There is no gradient. Something either is evolved to adapt to its environment or it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Ok, but evolution doesn't follow a straight path. The ancestors of whales looked like wolves, while whales look, act, and function much more like fish, which those wolf-like pre-whales evolved from way earlier up the line. This is a common misconception about evolution, so don't feel bad for getting caught in it.