convergent evolution is such a head scratcher, nature is full of puzzles, like how humans became to dominate this world, yet a human allegedly wrote the title of this post
Tittle*
*Titties
TIL why do words keep evolving into titties?
Because everyone likes titties
World cold and hard. Titty warm and soft.
This guy boobs
They keep evolving into pigs too.
Peccary:
Tapir:
Capybara:
Thanks, I knew there was at least one more. I feel like there’s something else I’m not thinking of as well but I can’t place it.
I feel like there’s something else
yes, pigs
IANAS, but it sure seems like most of these pig fuckers just went fully off-road genetically as soon as their two main external sphincters formed during mitosis, and focused everything else afterward on that core concept: Eat & Shit. (punctuation optional; creative emphasis, arrangement, spelling, etc. promoted)
Guinea pigs perhaps? I didn’t post them because capy represents them as Caviidae.
I think I was thinking of javelina, but they’re related to peccaries.
I thought those were technically rodents?
They are, just like guinea pigs (their smaller relative). It’s just that the bauplan is rather close to a pig - stubby legs, roundy body, stubby tail.
I guess that just like non-crustacean peak performance is to become crab-like, mammal peak performance is to become pig-like? Cats*, humans, dogs, we’ll eventually get porcinised!
*except my cat. She’s a Schweinekatze (pig-cat) so she’s already pig-like.
Into two pigs? How often?
Twice
I thought it was once every other pig, thanks for the info!
The semantics of this title makes my brain itch
Ok, when we’re at 100 comments about the ti
ttle, I will finally edit itlol throw a colon after TIL and it’s good enough.
lol throw a colon
I did, and now I’m no longer licensed to perform surgery!
Ring toss?
Nah, I was a gastric surgeon, not a proctologist or urologist 😉
sound like a plan
Still hurts
The title , yo
Be careful what you ask for on Lemmy… :-P
Titillating
I like that it kinda implies that animals are spontaneously becoming crab often enough to be a problem.
I mean, when you start categorizing things by phylogenetics instead of phenetics, you realize that certain body plans happen a lot more than expected.
Drill a small hole and you can scratch it
Crab people, crab people.
Taste like crab, talk like people.
If crabs came from animals, why are there still animals?
Nature: “Give it time.”
note to self: don’t evolve into a crab
apparently we won’t because we’re not modular enough
The big takeaway the casual reader should learn from this is that contrary to the memes it’s not “animals” it’s “crustaceans” and to some extent arthropods.
Apes won’t evolve into crabs unless we do it deliberately.
Until we do it deliberately.
Ah fuck, you guys found the secret ape crab lab, didn’t you?
This title hurt me physically.
I want to be one of those crabs that form a conga line and swap shells.
That’ll be the hermit, ironically.
I’ve also heard kangaroos are further evolved, or more distinctly evolved, from our common ancestor than us.
No claws yet though. Having a biological pocket is cool.
Ahem. 🫣
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