It’s so telling that it’s been a long established chanlord policy that “anything goes” on /b/ except furry art. Gore and snuff are fine, but that? Outrageous! wojak-nooo

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    Yes indeed, but they are rare and I’m just saying that we should embrace them for their choices.

    Well, that might be a bit much, especially for the venomous ones. We should respect their choices, and it’s obviously worked out for them.

    I do love the boa constrictors with the occasional random tow, though. It’s like a Hemingway cat, but for snakes.

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        1 year ago

        We frequently use words like “choice” to speak about things like evolutionary dynamics because they make the talk more interesting. It’s a deliberate misuse of the phrase in some ways, but it implies that natural selection ended up canalizing snakes into a specific evolutionary pathway - one instead of many possible others - based on innumerable factors but all being by definition locally (in time and place) more or less favorable.

        I appreciate the input and thank you for the clarification for readers - although I don’t imagine many people thought there was some Ur-snake who said “fuck these legs.”

        For the record, I am an evolutionary biologist.

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          I don’t imagine many people thought there was some Ur-snake who said “fuck these legs.”

          quite literally they grow penises in their place which was the weirdest fact I learned today