Comment on Radicality

bitteroldcoot@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• SaltyIceteaMaker@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  do we know that ONLY mammals had hair for the entirety of evolution? /genuine

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  • bitteroldcoot@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There is a hairy frog. But he’s something of a psycho aberration.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There are hairy crustaceans.

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    • Bougie_Birdie@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well you can’t just drop a bomb like that without backing it up

      What the actual fuck is this misbegotten creature? It pumps blood into its hair, and it can break its toes to make Wolverine claws

      Nature is metal

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      • sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The hairy frog (Trichobatrachus robustus), also known as the horror frog or Wolverine frog

        This is the greatest opening line in a Wikipedia article that I have ever read.

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      • bitteroldcoot@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Very much the teenage mutant honey badger of frogs.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think early feathers were hairlike but obviously in the sense of fur that covered the body. There were a lot of evolutionary factors that led to out hair that’s (1.) only on the head and (2.) grows far longer than necessary.

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    • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      we have hair all over our bodies. most of it is vellous hair though so it isnt as visible. we just have far less terminal hair than other primates, but the hair density isnt that much lower. as far as the head hair growing long, its not that its unnecessary its just for different purposes than most animal fur. head hair is primarily social, and people like people with long hair, so theres a social benefit to having nice head hair that can grow long. its so ingrained that being completely bald is socially isolating to some extent, especially for women.

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      • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        True. My point still stands that to get to the point in the post requires a lot of evolutionary oddities that only happened in humans. So the steps are more or less the same: developing fur, reducing it everywhere except for the head and elongating it on the head. Dinosaurs might have had furlike feathers but that’s where it ends.

        There is also the argument to make that once early humans developed the ability to cut hair, there was no evolutionary pressure on restricting the length. So it might have started as a sign of health and strength so it grew longer to the point that they decided to cut it and from there it went off uncontrolled.

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• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s highly probable if dinosaurs evolved to look like this they’d have trouble breeding and die out.

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  • VaalaVasaVarde@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    All the males only listened to Tatesaur, and then all the females lost interest.

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• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  But what if a group of dinosaurs independently evolved hair or something highly convergent to it, but then that lineage left no descendants among modern birds, leaving none of them with the trait?

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  • bitteroldcoot@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If we are going to make up stuff we can’t prove or disprove, at least go big. Like maybe some of them breathed fire.

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    • popekingjoe@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And had big ass wings, and ate prehistoric cows in one bite. They also yelled a lot.

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