I have a collection of Odonata. Some can only be speciated by the venation pattern of the wing. Beautiful creatures that spawn from some of the ugliest macroinvertebrates that ever crawled through the pond.
That could be used as a nice analogy... (fill in the blank style).
Here’s something to ponder.
Caterpillars are wormlike fuzzy creatures that climb around plants and eat their leaves. They wrap themselves up in a cocoon and, in a wink of an eye, totally EVOLVE (metamorphosis) into an entirely different (in just about every way one can think of) creature. How is it possible that a creature can totally ‘transform’ it’s body????
I studied entomology with a grad student that photo-categorized 300+ sub-species of dragonfly just by their body stripes.
Unfortunately, most of MY bug-work involved deer ticks and skeeters.....disease carriers in the northeast.
Bugs are fun.