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City Raccoons Are Evolving to Look More Like Pets (www.scientificamerican.com)
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[โ€“] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You assume it's a one-way street.

Humans having a proclivity towards "cute" animals is as much an evolved trait as animals becoming "cuter" to better adapt to presence.

Hell, for that matter, it isn't just us that have a proclivity towards "cuteness". It exists in plenty of species, we just tend to be the ones most prone to it outside of very similar species.

It is absolutely evolution because it isn't selective.

[โ€“] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

I don't understand your last sentence. Selection a main mechanism of evolution.