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This is an adaptation — in evolutionary biology, a trait that arose due to natural selection.

That’s unsurprising, given its scientific pedigree: Church is a prominent geneticist, and the company’s chief science officer, Beth Shapiro, is a renowned biologist and winner of a MacArthur “genius” award who taught evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz before moving to Colossal.

“The deep open ocean is a sensitive environment and changing temperatures would essentially shift the balance of the ecosystem that anglerfishes have adapted to exploit,” Chase Brownstein, a research associate at Yale University’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology program, told Salon.

Evolutionary biology has been repeatedly proven true for nearly two centuries, without which all the medical innovations even Republicans depend on would not have been developed.

It has been hypothesized that the reason our reward system is triggered by sugar is rooted in evolutionary biology.