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Why did animals even evolve? What do they do?
They suck at growing and holding biomass (under 0,1% of all biomass on Earth).
They take ages to replicate.
They adapt very slowly.
Even a single failure in their system can cause the failure of entire organism.
They can't live without symbiosis with bacteria.
They only consume other organisms for energy and structure instead of building their own from inorganic molecules.
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>>8977782
well, even though humans hold a minute amount of biomass, we are the only species capable of adjusting our environment to suit our needs to the extent we do. also, when cells specialize, they allow for evolutionary advantages relative to other species. this is seen as an extreme in humans, where our brain size and complexity allowed for the ultimate (so far) evolutionary advantage, self-awareness/consciousness.
biomass alone does not really represent evolutionary success. the ability to survive in any environment does, being free of an ecological niche, and nothing beats humans at doing this (someone will mention extremophiles but those are niches, humans no longer have a "niche")
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>>8977782
Animals evolved because they lived, reproduced, and not all of them died off. that's the way anything survives
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>>8977782
They obviously exist in the wild and that's why they're there, because they survive.
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