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Well, it's never random, is it? It's only random when all is equal, otherwise it's biased. That's why it works.

Consider birds. There was a good article a few days back, on why only non-toothed birds survived. Until the meteor-strike, 65M years ago, all was equal and they survived along-side. Until they were the only survivors.




The asteroid that created the Chicxulub impact came from a rather random ___location but had a deterministic effect given where it struck.

And here we are, with beaked birds. ^_^

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicxulub_crater




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