Did wings evolve to attract a mate ?

Indeed, reproduction (sexual intercourse in our case) is the prime motivator for everything that we are. Our nervous systems, digestive systems, motor systems, even our brains, only serve to enable us to find food, avoid danger, and basically survive (through learning, imagination, reflex and instinct), so that we can find a mate, reproduce, then die. Sometimes it makes me wonder, why is reproduction so important, besides the logical need to sustain the development of the species. Is there something greater that we do not understand, something that the survival of a species influences Nature o... [More]

Sometimes it makes me wonder, why is reproduction so important, besides the logical need to sustain the development of the species. Is there something greater that we do not understand, something that the survival of a species influences Nature on a cosmic scale? as Terence Mckenna finally concluded a few days before his death, "It's all about love"...

Sometimes it makes me wonder, why is reproduction so important, besides the logical need to sustain the development of the species. Is there something greater that we do not understand, something that the survival of a species influences Nature on a cosmic scale? I think its a little simpler than that. After all, anything that didn't make reproduction it's priority wouldn't have been able to compete with everything else that did.

Did wings evolve to attract a mate ? Well, there you go - it's wrong right from the start. Seeing that evolution is unguided and has no brain, goals, purpose or intent, it is ludicrous to say anything evolved for a reason or with any purpose - other than random mutations + selection. Period.

Evolution is most certainly guided. The very environment guides the enforcement of the genetic traits. While the mutations that occur are certainly random, their selection is most certainly not. Evolution occurs for a very specific reason: that which can reproduce more effectively passes it's traits on.

Isn't there an energy drink that's supposed to give you wings? lol

Isn't there an energy drink that's supposed to give you wings? lol

flight feathers on non avian dinos did not originally evolved solely for the act of attracting mates but used by the swift dinos to turn tighter corners as todays ground dwelling birds do today..i.e. chickens, ostriches, emus, rheas, etc. they extend the wing on the side they are turning so that the extended arm create drag spinning the bird, dino into the turn more effectively. if they do indeed use those same flight feathers to attract mate. it would be a secondary adaptation.

Just like getting a fast car, basically, then.

Image credit: Wikipedia That thing has a very surprised expression. And frankly, looking like that, who could blame it.