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Originally posted by phukraut
to think of 'uses' of flies is sort of like continuing the old anthropocentric view of nature. in another perspective, nature is mindless and without design, and the fly is just due to a series of changes or adaptations that that happened to be favourable to survival and eventually led to what we know as the fly. its goal in life is to survive long enough to propagate. nothing good or bad about it.
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I didn't say "What good are flies
to humans. I asked what they were "good for" (as in
what do they do?) within various ecosystems. I understand where you're coming from, but that's now what I was asking. "What is it good for?" is just another (simpler) way of asking, "In what ways does the fly interact within its ecosystems?" My experience with evolutionary biology tells me that there are still a good number of scientists who use language shortcuts despite the fact that people who read it too literally come to misinterpret their words.
Tropple - thanks for that fun information!