Beelzebub said...
Oh ****, sharks are making you nervous? how do you think they would view the situation?
Their cro-magnon brains view the situation as: Food! Me hungry! And that is a far cry from what you see as "perfect", considering they cannot even wipe their own asses and are reduced to defecating in their own "habitat".
By the way, while sharks have done nothing but kill for the last 15 million years, in 100,000 years those "stupid" mammals have evolved from monkeys to determine the the origin, history and future of the universe. That is something that warrants genuine respect.
What? You are so far off the mark buddy! Cro-magnons are a sub-species of Neanderthal man- an upper paleolithic hominin species - nothing to do with a fish!
Also, mammals evolved from fish - not the other way around, unless you subscribe to the "aquatic ape theory" - even then, that still doesn't explain fish as having evolved from mammalian proto species, its more of a 1960's, half assed, hairy bushed way of explaining bipedal locomotion in hominins.
Your definition of "perfect" explains why you failed high school biology too: an organism is seen as "fit" in its habitat so long as it can gain enough energy to survive, grow and reproduce. Sharks are super awesome at this. So good in fact, that they can even utilise alternative food sources that they encounter in their habitat. Also, the fossil record for shark species shows that millions of years have passed and shark morphology has barely changed. This would suggest that the environmental selection pressures have already weeded out the alleles which give rise to deleterious mutations/ phenotypes.
So we can now all accept that sharks are as close to perfectly evolved (or more so than any other genus known to scientists) and that you Beezlebub can lick my balls.