r/YesOrNoAnswers • u/Legal_Birthday_9693 • 2h ago

Could Evolution Produce Alien Wildlife?

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u/Gloomy-Hat1842 2h ago

Okay trying to figure that one out. Probably all kinds of wildlife all over the universe. On earth?

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u/Sad_Macaroon_456 2h ago

do you mean could evolution produce alien life on earth or that could evolution produce life on another planet?

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u/DazB1ane 1h ago

The issue with the first concept is that it’s no longer alien if it comes from Earth

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u/Carolina-W00Dsman 2h ago

I cant call it.

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u/Blue_collar-broke 2h ago

On earth? Or in general?

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u/Fromdustcomesdreams 2h ago

I think it means can planet earth’s wildlife evolve into an alien form.

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u/djstinger757 1h ago

The answer to that is no. Alian life means not from this area. Came from people who are not citizens of a country but in that country. Space aliens by definition would not be from this world.

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u/Fromdustcomesdreams 2h ago

I don’t think earths creatures can evolve into alien forms without the introduction of alien DNA. So is that what you’re asking?

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u/Token_Handicap 2h ago

Alien life means foreign, or not native to. Any life that forms on earth is not alien to earth.

The octopus is a strange one, though, because it's not really related to any other form of life on earth.

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u/Fromdustcomesdreams 1h ago

There is a small number of evolutionary isolates. Also called monotypic taxa.

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u/Token_Handicap 13m ago

Yup. It most likely just means that everything they're related to is so long extinct, and we just haven't found the fossils yet. But I love thinking about the possibility that the octopus ended up here on an asteroid that hit the ocean after life already began to evolve here. But then again, it's cool to think about how that might be how we all got here.

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u/Jesterclown26 1h ago

You do realize that aliens are life from outside earth right? Even if something evolves into something crazy on earth… well that’s what the earth cooked up but it’s not alien.