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So, a more scientifically oriented title should be: What do Stripes do for Zebras? Shoo away flies.
EDIT: but thinking about it more, nothing says multiple traits can't gain traction as a consequence of deadly pressure. I guess I never thought that much about evolution!
I definitely want a zebra striped T-shirt now!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, its pretty obvious to recognize a zebra using a neural net (e.g. resnet)
I meant with regards for reference for landings, although I imagine a drone could look around, it’s far larger than a fly.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage
If the theory of evolution is correct, then there is no why to any animal trait. There's no "reason" for the traits, it only happens that maybe some traits allowed the species to survive longer and so they are still around today, but that doesn't mean "someone" enforced a certain trait with a certain purpose. So, a more scientifically oriented title should be: What do Stripes do for Zebras? Shoo away flies.
Zebras have stripes because their stripes shoo away flies, which helped previous generations of zebras who had stripes thrive and pass their genes forward. Why do zebras have stripes? Because they shoo flies away and evolution ensured that that helpful trait kept passing through descendants until every zebra had it as a dominant, visible trait.
No one ever said there had to be "someone" somewhere to paint zebras black and white, that's just you using anthropomorphized evolution as a straw man/entity.
If the theory of evolution is correct, then there is no why to any animal trait. There's no "reason" for the traits, it only happens that maybe some traits allowed the species to survive longer and so they are still around today, but that doesn't mean "someone" enforced a certain trait with a certain purpose. So, a more scientifically oriented title should be: What do Stripes do for Zebras? Shoo away flies.
No, that's a common mistake. In fact, there can be causation without a sentient causal entity. Zebras have stripes because their stripes shoo away flies, which helped previous generations of zebras who had stripes thrive and pass their genes forward. Why do zebras have stripes? Because they shoo flies away and evolution ensured that that helpful trait kept passing through descendants until every zebra had it as a dom…
If the theory of evolution is correct, then there is no why to any animal trait. There's no "reason" for the traits, it only happens that maybe some traits allowed the species to survive longer and so they are still around today, but that doesn't mean "someone" enforced a certain trait with a certain purpose. So, a more scientifically oriented title should be: What do Stripes do for Zebras? Shoo away flies.
So, there's nothing wrong with the title of "Why do Zebras have stripes [other than the obvious default non-answer 'because stripes are somehow good for them']? To Shoo Away Flies."
I.e. "why do they have Y" is "why" in the sense "what's the reason/cause of Y's continued existence".
Evolution doesn’t care and has no sense of meaning, like in genetic algrotihms it is just about which patterns survive, which die and which remain as a funny annecdote with no practical effect.