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[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Not only should it happen in nature, but nature causes this behavior. They evolved that way because they survive better than a species that gets tangled up in itself. That's it. That's the whole reason, start to finish. There are a multitude of reasons why not getting tangled up in your neighbors is good, but the tree simply has to survive better, and that is all that is required for the behavior to become the new natural norm.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Man, that's some crazy logic. I'll take occams razor and state that wind movement abrades the leaves/limbs on one another.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's not crazy logic to describe natural selection.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

I'm just saying you're adding too much complexity in this particular phenomenon. Evolution by natural selection is a very robust model that has remarkable predictive power. It only works if you're not assuming too many inputs.

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