Variation and divergence in nature

 My first post for this blog was about my atheism. I do not believe that the universe was designed by a deity. I have no idea how and why everything exists. And I fully accept that I never will. I'm more interested in understanding everything that happens on this planet. That knowledge is tangible because our species has something that we named intelligence.

We are too smart for our own good at times however. We like to think of ourselves as special and superior because we can do things the other animals can't. But the other animals all have their own thing that they do differently. So that means all species are special. Which in turn means no species is special. 

We are all just here together doing our individual thing, collectively. We call that nature. In nature you will see variations within a species. These variations occur at the molecular level. So some beings are made differently than the majority of the group. We have also come to realize that many of these variations are hereditary.

As I said before, humans are not as special and unique as we think we are. So the variations that we have realized and researched in ourselves, we realized occurred in other animals as well. That's why we switched from medical testing on humans to testing on other animals.

If animals can have the same or similar physical mutations as us, the same can apply to mental mutations. Neurodiversity exists throughout nature, not just in our species.

Now think about all of this as we talk about dogs. Humans manipulated another species through unnatural selection and breeding creating subspecies that we call breeds. These breeds were created not only for their physical characteristics but also their mental characteristics. So when I say the sentence "Jack Russell terriers have ADHD" that should make perfect sense right?

Okay, bye✌🏽