What happens when the giraffes get over 500m tall?
the lamarcube
Submitted 3 months ago by nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone to science_memes@mander.xyz
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wewbull@feddit.uk 3 months ago
Morphit@feddit.uk 3 months ago
If it’s a cube, I’d have questions before they got to 8m.
If it’s 1m², but 500m tall, I’d have … different questions.Agent641@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What if the region is just giraffe-shaped?
flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Reminds me of Biotopia! Such a great and hilarious radionovela!! (But only if you understand Spanish)
nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
damn shame i don’t speak spanish… what’s it about?
flora_explora@beehaw.org 3 months ago
It’s a fictional news bulletin that is supposedly only for this small community of mad scientists all living together. And since they all have their over the top projects, it never gets boring. Like, you have the abogato (a cat that is also a lawyer), someone clones themselves way too many times, an artificial intelligence that is making a radio drama about this community but is digging up too many secrets. And hundreds of other funny stories.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I had to look it up. If you search Lamarck you find the guy, but the wikipedia page is massive. But searching ‘Lamarck theory’ brings up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism . TL;DR: inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Lamarck argued that a blacksmith gets strong muscles from his work and his sons inherit those strong muscles.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
I mean, it wasn’t a horrible theory at the time, and there was even some evidence for it (because the blacksmiths sons were very likely also blacksmiths, and thus also muscular). Even Darwin couldn’t explain HOW his theory evolution was actually supposed to function, he basically just said that it did.
Unfortunately, even after we discovered genes, people were still following Lamarck, and it’s offshoot, Lysonkoism got a LOT of people killed, despite by then being verifiably false.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There’s also epigenetics, which could be described as a very limited version of Lamarckism that actually holds water. That’s stretching definitions, but it does involve lifestyle conditions in one generation that affect future generations. So far, it’s mostly restricted to things like famine in one generation leading to increased fat storage in future generations, iirc.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
Lamarkism is a basic correlation / causation mix-up to be fair.
Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
Blacksmith got jacked by crankin his shaft-shaped horn.
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
I mean, that’s basically halfway to pokémon evolution already. I’m in.