Why there are no wheels on our feet?
In
this post I question the basic tenet of Darwin’s Evolution through Natural
Selection; and, leave even a tentative response to the reader.
I sometimes catch glimpses of Hollywood movies, aimed at teens and possibly young adults in which one sees they use skate-boards, in-line skates, four-wheeled skates, two-wheeled Segway (now withdrawn over safety concerns) and other contraptions that confer the advantages of wheeled mobility.
Natural
Selection is wasteful and stupid, I knew (after all, it is nothing but a
two-step algorithm repeated thousands of times), but it could not have been
this stupid to give us bipedal mobility when wheels could have been better. I
am searching for the necessarily wasteful and stupid answer .
Hence
this post.
The
response to this conundrum, I believe, is precisely on the pathway evolutionary
biologists traverse, even if only through bipedal motion. If you think on it or even just happen upon a
plausible answer, please do not keep it to yourself – share it with me.
Thanks
in advance.
Raghuram
Ekambaram
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