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Just a quick question, hows does an individual body 'know' how to mutate to something beneficial , if it's never had it before ??. Because it seems to me you've confused 'random mutations that happen to be beneficial' with 'pre-determined development'.

DNA expression is hard-coded to be immutable. That's why any genetic change is termed 'mutation', genetics are already 'hard coded and expressed' at conception, it's impossible for dna to change or 'develop' after gestation (except to mutate as sickness, disease).

To clarify, the process of evolution is taught as a 'randomised compounding series of beneficial mutations over time', not anywhere, anything remotely considered to be shown as pre-determination, even though the 'change/ mutation' may be beneficial/ advantageous.

Afaik, there has never been any cellular/ genetic proof or evidence for an encoded process of 'evolutionary development' of pre-determination ... If you have some, could you show me ...

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Even if a predator did develope horns or antlers it really wouldnt give him shit for an advantage. Their claws and teeth are where their destructive power lies. Mutations that give an advantage are the ones that stick around.

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1) Neither phenotype nor genotype is completely static throughout the lifespan of a higher level organism. So there is some ability for an organism to react to pressures beyond just survival + mate selection.

2) An individual body doesn't "know". It's a statistical experiment run at large scale over generations without only a tiny bit of adaptation within any particular specimen. (see #1).

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So you are describing 'mutation' then , yes ??. I don't have a problem with that. Any Adaption is already 'hard-coded' into the genome.

If 'mutations' are a randomised statistical occurrence, that is at odds with what the original commenter seems to be implying as an ' evolutionary developmental process' at the behest of an individual organism.

I think one would have to use a very liberal definition of mutation. #1 is not a "bit flip" due to a copying error or a cosmic ray.