We continue our study of trailcamming.
I’m not surprised by our nightly visitors, and the consistency of their patterns says much about evolutionary behaviors.
Creatures – and this includes humans – behave in ways refined over millions of years.
And we’re still evolving.
Idiot evolutionary biologists thought humans stopped evolving several hundred thousand years ago.
Now we know human evolution is in “overdrive,” which makes sense because the environmental change is in overdrive and the environment is a central driver for evolution because evolution is basically the organism adapting to their environment.
Can’t adapt?
Go bye-bye.
Can adapt?
Your great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great ancestor may not recognize you as the same as they are.
Let’s face it, a modern human in ancient Greece, the Fertile Crescent, Asia, or anywhere else in the 10kBC world would easily be mistaken for a god due to height, health, scent, and several dozen other factors.
Makes you wonder, doesn’t it? That whole thing about any sufficiently advanced tech?
So our backyard guests continue to evolve.
We are now several generations of Opossum, Raccoon, Fox, Skunk, Hawk, Owl, Rabbit, Coyote, and others who’ve adapted to us leaving food for them.
Imagine! Humans causing creatures to evolve!
Kind of like domesticating wolves into camp dogs and aurochs into cattle.
Fun fact: Did you know the first domesticated animal was the snail?
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