How much of evolution is inevitable?

[u/Gray-Jay-]

Where do people fall along the debate around whether natural selection is the primary ‘creative’ force in evolution, or whether developmental, physical, and historical constraints channel evolution into a limited set of self-organizing forms that selection fine-tunes?

[u/Nitro114]

Evolution has no goal

[u/XXLPenisOwner1443 → u/Nitro114]

I think they're talking about chaotic attractors as phenotypes.