• @[email protected]
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    83 hours ago

    Spinal catastrophe fucked up the being alive meta on this planet. Everything is spinal now. So unoriginal

  • @[email protected]
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    509 hours ago

    It says regular reminder but this is the first one I got! To whom do I direct my complaints??

    • @[email protected]
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      12 hours ago

      It’s regular, it just isn’t done very often. I’m probably older than you and this is the second time I have been reminded so

    • @[email protected]
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      117 hours ago

      Regular doesn’t mean often. It could be regular by evolutionary standard, in which case the next reminder should come when we’ve evolved into crabs

    • enkers
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      98 hours ago

      Did you maybe accidentally reply “UNSUBSCRIBE” to your shark-facts text?

  • Ignotum
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    6010 hours ago

    Human embryo: alien looking blob
    Shark embryo: happy little fella

  • @cholesterol
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    239 hours ago

    Cool, but it’s pretty hard to decipher the illustration

  • @[email protected]
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    139 hours ago

    Nice. Now can anyone find the original image so that I can actually see what’s going on? Very hard to make out anything behind the layers and layers of compression, recompression, screenshots, and compression again.

    • The_Lorax
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      96 hours ago

      All land animals came from fish like creatures, monkeys included. We just came from monkeys more recently.

      Lineage from fish (roughly) goes Fish>Amphibian>Reptile>Synapsid>Mammal>Primate>Ape>Human This is missing like a thousand steps for the sake of brevity.

      The most common issue we run into is that these are all colloquial terms. There are scientific terms we should use when talking about evolution but we don’t. In place of fish should be “vertibrates”. All vertibrates came from the first creature with a spine, which was a fish like creature. You can likewise do this with everything before Synapsid.

  • riquisimo
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    49 hours ago

    That’s really cool! I always wondered how gills evolved out. Now I wanna research this to see how accurate it is.

    • @[email protected]
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      Not same but related: There’s a nerve that goes down from the brain to the arch of the aorta, loops around below it, then goes right back up to innervate parts of the face iirc. In fish, it’s a straight path. And it has been a thing since the first land animals emerge, including in giraffes and other long-necked creatures.

      • @Reddfugee42
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        69 hours ago

        I used this to finally shake a creationist friend. There’s a video on YouTube of finding this nerve in a giraffe cadaver.

        • @[email protected]
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          47 hours ago

          Laryngeal nerve / Vagus nerve!

          The event was hosted by Richard Dawkins and hadn’t been done before (on record anyway)

          The video is very short and everyone should watch (graphic giraffe dissection warning)

      • @deus
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        69 hours ago

        Huh, TIL. Here’s the Wiki page about it, for anyone curious.