Unwasteful Man By Imperator-Zor Watch

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A bit of reductio ad absurdum in regards to something that I hear now and again: that non humanoid aliens with six or more limbs or more than two eyes could not evolve because doing do is "wasteful of resources" and that natural selection will always, always ALWAYS breed towards the optimum design (instead of going with the least bad one for a given environment using what it has on hand with no plan or thought) which is obviously the humanoid body (lets leave aside the fact that we walk on badly modified hands, we have backwards wired eyes for no good reason, wisdom teeth, etc).



And so I've contrived a creature which takes their reasoning even further than they dared. If six limbs are wasteful, so would be four. As such a pinnical of evolution is Unwasteful Man! Unwasteful Man has a single arm with one joint in the middle and a pair of fingers for, a beak in place of a teeth and complicated lips, a single hearing diaphragm and eye, a pillar like neckbone and one powerful limb for hopping along everywhere. Obviously this creature with so many superfluous features deleted would be the apex of evolution! At least according to some people

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