byssus – Uncommon Descent

Sometimes it’s hard for researchers to avoid talking about design in nature

Marine mussels have “perfected the art,” have they? If they just happen to have evolved to be so clever, why don’t they do more? It’s becoming increasingly obvious that something in nature is clever but it isn’t the mussel.

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