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Re:The energy expansions of evolution (2017) by dcolkitt on Friday February 07, 2020 @01:31PM (#22269084)
Biological evolution does a pretty poor job of mechanical adaptations in general. For example in the entire history of life on Earth there's no instance of a true wheel being developed.

I'd say evolution is really good at chemical engineering, decent at aerospace engineering, okay-isn at electrical/computer engineering, and incompetent at mechanical engineering.

Re:The energy expansions of evolution (2017) by quasimodem on Saturday February 08, 2020 @12:16AM (#22274077)
If you believe that humans are too just products of evolution, then I'd say evolution gets credit for aerospace engineering too.