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Author Topic:   How did the stomach evolve?
NoNukes
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Message 6 of 18 (721997)
03-14-2014 12:26 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by CoolBeans
03-13-2014 10:28 PM


I don't see the conundrum
This question seems of a type with the question of how could an electric eel evolve, and I don't think it is too terribly difficult to come up with a starting point and a path that could work. As a class they require thinking of acids or electricity only at their most potent levels.
First, acids do attack the digestive track, but really weak acids need not do so at a rate that endangers the organisms survival. So a starting point might be a digestive system only able to digest the easiest foods. Natural selection might then favor variation providing greater resistance to stronger digestive fluid allowing more choice of foodstuff.
Organisms do have some control over eating stuff that upsets their tummies and also in the strength of the acid they secrete. But evolution could favor animals that can eat stuff that makes their competition sick.
Next up how did cheetahs evolve their great speed? Shouldn't they have all died out when they were too slow to catch gazelles or escape lions?
Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

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