When Evolution Glitches Out

When Evolution Glitches Out with tags minuteearth, minute earth, minutephysics, minute physics, earth, history, science, environment, environmental science, earth science, evolution, mating, harmful, birds, sea turtles, evolutionary traps

Animals are prone to falling for “evolutionary traps”: modern human-made stuff that accidentally tricks them into maladaptive behavior.

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- Evolutionary trap: a situation where an organism, due to a change in its environment (often human-induced), makes a decision that was once adaptive but now leads to a maladaptive outcome, even though better alternatives exist.

- Stimulus: a detectable change in an organism's internal or external environment that triggers a response.

- Supernormal stimulus: a stimulus that elicits a response more strongly than the natural stimulus for which it evolved.

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