How did Evolution produce Symmetry?

As we knew less and less about the background we would have a harder and harder time infering intelligent design. However, the statues are still of a kind that we recognize as the kind of thing humans produce and would infer things from that.This does become a real problem. As we probe back into paleoanthropology the tools that our ancestors made become more and more simple and less like those we recognize as like known intelligently designed and made tools. At some point it starts to become controversial whether they are products of design or nature and takes significant care to try to distinguish them. When we can't attach them to known designers we start to be unable to distinguish them from "undesigned" objects.

Probably, what does that have to do with anything?How would you decide it is intelligently designed, if you would?

You know, HB, that is an interesting idea.However, I would start off doubting it is actually what is going on for a couple of reasons:The human genome (unlike a bacteria's) seems loaded with more than it "really" needs. If this is true then the savings due to symmetry might be overwhelmed by that.I suspect that the values in symmetry as a survival feature are more important than any savings in DNA management that there might be. My guess would be that if having an asymmetric form was advantageous it would be used and the extra DNA would be carried.However, I sure don't have anyway of proving any of that. My guess is that we don't know enough to figure all that out. I'll make another quick guess here. It would, as you say, be a waste of time. I won't bother. It does however belong in another thread as it isn't on topic here.

We certainly do not know all that much yet, our knowledge is indeed sparse. However, you are proposing things wich we have "no awareness of". Until we have some awareness of them they are wild specultion with no reason for it and nothing further to say about it.Making an assumption isn't very helpful without some idea of how to test it.And you might want to specify "other assumptions". Are there some which are as little evidenced as yours? Symmetry as a boon --You're not the first to suggest this. Have you read "The Red Queen" by Ridley?Things which are "intuitive" may be right, they are also very often wrong. That is no more than a starting point for the very knowledgable whose intuition might be more to the point than the less knowledgable.------------------
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