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The title and the meme are correct. Many people think that evolution means becoming bigger and physically stronger and having more powerful offensive capabilities and smarter and faster etc. But in reality evolution can just as easily mean becoming smaller, weaker, dumber, and slower

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MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Exhibit A:

Koala bears.

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- Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Exhibit B: human
  
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  - vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Hey evolution has decided at least one person I know is gonna become the start of a line of Neo-Neanderthals. So we aint all doomed.
    
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kadu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
The issue is precisely in your mix up of “linear progression” and implying “smaller” is somehow a counter argument to that. While it’s true evolution isn’t linear, being smaller is not a downgrade at all.

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- Glowstick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I haven’t mixed up anything. Smaller to bigger to smaller again is not a linear progression in size going always upward, which is what happens in games and in people’s misconceptions.
  
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