• KTJ_microbes@mander.xyz
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    3 days ago

    LOL how about horizontal gene transfer, and Eukaryotes being a merger of Alphaproteobacteria (and cyanobacteria for the photosynthesizing ones) and Asgard Archea.

    It’s all interconnected, intertwined, nature man! Holobionts and shit.

  • Akasazh@feddit.nl
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    3 days ago

    When I first saw a platypus in person I was amazed by how small they where. They seem bigger in most photos.

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    Evolutionary trees pretty much look like a git tree in a large company: always changing requirements, only patches, rarely less code. It somewhat works and nobody understands why.

    I wanted to say that at least the programming language is always the same, but it’s at least two.

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      In both cases it works because that’s the only requirement. It doesn’t need to be elegant or make sense or even last very long

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    Life has convergent evolution. It’s like when devs on different branches solve the same problem over and over again without telling anyone else or merging back to main so no one else has to code the same shit over and over again.

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      It’s simple really. Like saving a computer game and then if something doesn’t work out you can go back to a previous save game.

      It only really gets tricky when multiple people are continuing on the same save and you want progress from both when you load it. But you can leave that to the most senior person to figure out.

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    4 days ago

    You know someone’s toddler took the controls for the platypus design.
    “I want a duck…but you can milk it. Poison! Like bad bad sting. BEAAAVER tail.”

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    3 days ago

    you know how all mammals were once fish? Well some of those intermediary species still survive to this day, like the lovable platypus :3 Also marsupials aka pouch things—one of those intermediary steps from layings like fish to incubating them in a placenta.

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      3 days ago

      We still filter out all our salt, then mix it back into our blood, a slight modification of a marine fish’s method for dumping excess salt. Being terrestrial we can’t afford to lose salt