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Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Or that we are quite literally apes.

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  • Nurgus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    We share a common ancestor with mushrooms amd sea horses

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Image

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    • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      if you go back far enough, every living species shares the same ancestor.

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  • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You could see the short circuit in his head when I told my cousin’s husband about how slime mold has something like 13 different sexes, and that birds don’t use x/y but rather z/w.

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    • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I listened to a podcast recently about potatoes. The ones in Europe are all one species. They can’t grow variants from seeds because they have 4 chromosomes which means growing from seeds doesn’t give the same variant. They are basically clones. If a variant is lost it cannot be brought back, it’s gone for good.

      I never knew how interesting potatoes are!

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      • Brgor@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Lots of crops are like this, like apples! It’s called extreme heterozygosity.

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