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What is the evolutionary function of curiosity?

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1. To find out what's safe to eat and what's not when hunger looms. 2. To find causal links between weather and seasons, so as to know when to hunt and when game will be scarce. 3. read more

Evolution doesnt HAVE functions, its just a way of describing how traits survive and are passed down to the next generation. With that said, the reason that I think that curiosity is a trait that has survived, is because without it we would not make new discoveries, or spread to new areas. read more

Interestingly it seems like the least is known about curiosity from the perspective of its evolution, with function implying benefits that would lead to a fitness advantage to more curious individuals but no studies really measuring actual benefits associated with curiosity. read more

The car-size Curiosity rover is the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, slated to blast off Saturday (Nov. 26) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Curiosity's main goal is to assess whether the Red Planet is, or ever was, capable of supporting microbial life. read more

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