• Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    no natural predator is going to be chasing them at that kind of speed, so their instincts have no reason to be adapted

    Nonsense. Deer, including wild deer, live in parts of the world where that threat exists.

    Adaptation being beneficial for survival is about what IS, not only what’s natural. As far as reasons go, survival is kind of a big one for “instincts to be adapted”.

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      11 months ago

      Sure, but evolution takes a long time and cars have been a common enough threat to potentially cause selection pressure for what, a century or so maybe?