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How come evolution never developed the wheel?

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12-29-2018 12:36 AM 		Reply to: Message 1 by coffee_addict
12-26-2018 5:35 PM

How come evolution never came up with the wheel and axle?
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Why should it?
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Are you expecting evolution to devise every conceivable answer to every conceivable issue? Good enough is good enough for evolution. Compared to wheel-and-axle solutions a pair of limbs (or many multiple pairs) were, apparently, quite sufficient a body plan that no other structure proved to be as advantageous for those clades of organisms.
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So the answer may be as simple as saying a wheel-and-axle never developed because a number of more than adequate solutions had already been put into use.
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Edited by AZPaul3, : No reason given.
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12-29-2018 9:17 AM 		Reply to: Message 14 by RAZD
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So, humans made wheel/axle, humans are a product of evolution, therefore evolution made wheel/axle.
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Sure. Not quite what the discussion was about but ok. Why not.
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Edited by AZPaul3, : with a pinch of salt.
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12-31-2018 3:31 PM 		Reply to: Message 17 by RAZD
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Re: thanks for all the fish
When full autonomous replicating automatons are developed, are they life or something that evolved from life?
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Well, Will Smith called it a can opener so I'll go with that.
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I'm more interested in the cybernetic implants the then humans will be sporting. We have nothing to fear from AI. Quite the contrary. We will be the AI.
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Homo Sapiens Cybernetus.
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01-04-2019 12:33 PM

You two are talking this thing, yes?
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