Evolution is flawed

>>8439664
Basically, you're asking about how we went from a mass of DNA to individual cells.

To understand why cells evolved, you need to look at the environment from a gene's perspective. Genes which could protect themselves from the environment, assuming a normal rate of copying fecundity, would become more prevalent in the gene pool. Therefore, a gene with a random mutation to build a small membrane around itself would be more successful. This is the origin of the individual organism out of the collective "gene pool" Essentially, the genes started building "survival machines" for themselves which increased their chance of survival compared to their free-floating brothers.

limited resources leads to environmental competition

>>8439664
>The result would simply be a blob of self replicating matter, and NOT complex, multi cellular, organisms.
Why?
Random blobs of growth aren't that great. They need abundant food and energy or they starve, and they have no real means to avoid being eaten.

>>8439664
because of competition.

Evolution doesn't happen in order to reach a state. Evolution occurs randomly, and whatever survives to reproduce is generally what becomes a species.

There might be a more flawed self replicating blob with something fancy, but if that motherfucker evolves a knife that can kill off the other self replicating blobs, then all of a sudden the dominant species becomes the blob with the motherfucking knife. Then the species that evolved a countermeasure. And so on and so forth.

>>8439664
There are so many reasons kek.

I'm supprised nobody has mentioned that survival of the fittest ("allow it to replicate more efficiently") DOES NOT EQUAL evolution. Genetic drift anybody?
Imagine a population of blobs. Oh no! A random mutation. This blob is a bit weird, not going to be very successful. Whoopsie daises, thanks to random factors, the entire population was wiped out except for the weird cunt. Now his genes will reach fixation. Times this by a billion years and trillions upon trillions of generations, its pretty obvious that fucking anything can happen.

Thanks to random mutations, you could get a blob at any moment with some some strange mutation, maybe it is phenotypically different. Even though it isn't beneficial, the trait can still be passed on. Like, theres so much genetic information, but you somehow think that the entire GENOME of an organism is constantly under natural selection pressures? That doesn't make any sense. Some genes just slip through the cracks, no benefit, no detriment (for now, their value could change at any moment).

And as somebody else said, competition. Specifically cehck out the evolutionary stable niche discontinuity (ESND). Basically intraspecific competition (with your fellow blobs) will be EXTREMELY strong, because you are all accessing the same resource. As soon as a mutation arises which allows a blob to access a different resource, BOOM. Now these blobs are accessing the different resources, a so called "valley of low fitness" appears, which basically means that thanks to competition, it will always remain more advantageous to access and specialise in their own niche, rather than access somebody elses niche. This further drives apart the two species.

>>8439664
Jesus did it now fuck off

>>8439664
>The result would simply be a blob of self replicating matter, and NOT complex, multi cellular, organisms.

I don't know, man...

blobs of self replicating matter make a pretty good food source for multicellular life.

>>8439664

>Evolution ***should*** have just yielded organisms which strictly ate & replicated quickly.

Really? This assertion fails to address what happens when the food source is exhausted. Basically the species dies. You can't grow/replicate at accelerating rates because of fixed/slower growing resources.

Lastly your assertion implies that only mutations that result in strict eating and quicker replication would survive. This is the most ridiculous assertion I have ever heard wrt evolution since "God did it".

I am sorry 4 billion years of trial and error and/or god did not line up with your expectations anon.

>>8439664
Because evolution is not only "us vs. the environment", but also "us vs. each other". Being entirely focused on exploiting resources leaves you defenseless against exploitation yourself - a niche that *will* get filled, and that will drive all involved toward higher complexity than just "eat, shit, reproduce".

>>8439984
A blob can only be eaten by a larger/stronger blob.

Besides, there are plenty of life forms that do nothing but replicate themselves quickly: viruses. However, large multicellular organisms exist at the same time.