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How come evolution never developed the wheel?

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12-29-2018 11:55 AM 		Reply to: Message 9 by Dr Adequate
12-27-2018 4:01 PM

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You'd have to have a bit of the animal that would be separate, detached from the other bits. But then how would that bit get nutrients and oxygen?
Note how crankshafts, etc. are lubricated: force the oil into a passage in the axle and let it out through openings into the rotating parts.
And our geese will blot out the sun.
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