The Original Flavour

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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Just because your general body shape did not change does not mean you did not evolve.

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  • OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Point: facts

    Counterpoint: memes

    😁🫠

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    • SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This may seem like it’s just meant to be funny, but evolution without changes in genes is literally the origin of the word “meme”.

      Memetic evolution is evolving through passing information from generation to generation, so having the counterpoint just be “memes” is unbelievable accurate!

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    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m with Team Meme on this one.

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  • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    -Motivational quotes

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yup, things like temperature, humidity, and atmospheric makeup can change quite a bit depending on geological periods.

    There’s a bit of an evolutionary necessity to adapt on those timescales.

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• Geodad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They have evolved, just the body hasn’t changed.

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So did they grow as a person then?

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ve seen the evolution of the one to the right. It now has a USB connection on the tail.

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    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We talking USB-C, though?

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  • muhyb@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At least they don’t pay taxes.

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  • cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Did you talk to one?

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• bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So perfect that the poor things are doomed to have their blood harvested

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We are their vampires.

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• Infamousblt@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They do have one flaw and that’s their blood being so valuable to humans.

  Although perhaps that means humans will ensure their survival. So maybe even that is an evolutionary advantage

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  • underisk@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s been some buzz lately about a synthetic replacement for horseshoe crab blood. Once again outlasting a threat to their species while changing absolutely nothing.

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  • Wbear@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I feel like I’ve heard of this, but it’s bonkers. What is their blood used for again?

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    • pemptago@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I couldn’t wait for the answer

      In the 1960s, scientists discovered that the sky blue blood inside horseshoe crabs would clot when it detected bacterial toxins. Vaccines, drugs and medical devices have to be sterile before they’re put inside people. A better toxin-detection system meant less contamination risk for patients

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• Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The beauty of evolution. If it works, it works. Whatever they have been doing for so long is working.

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  • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Furthermore it’s beautiful that the evolutionary pressure hasn’t changed. That there hasn’t been a benefit from any of the genetic mutations. That the evolutionary pressure still applies to this day to ensure conformance with the perfect archetype.

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And now they will miss out on becoming crab, those poor fools.

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  • ignotum@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You fool!
    Crawls sideways
    We was crabs all along!

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• F04118F@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  greatergood.com/blogs/…/horseshoe-crab-petition

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• glitch1985@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Without flaw unless it gets flipped on its back.

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  • filcuk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ain’t a problem in the ocean

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• ComRed2@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Looks like one of those battlebots.

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• IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is what peak performance looks like

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  After the perfection only can exist decay, without errors, evolution can’t exist.

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• cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wouldn’t be surprised if they find these guys on Mars soon

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• CptEnder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also a true hero for our species, they deserve statues.

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• toppy@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He is the one.

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• Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The perfect boyfriend doesn’t exi-

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• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image a crab.

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  • Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Apart this Horseshoe crabs are not crabs it’s a own species, nearest related to spiders and scorpions. They are raised since 1970 on sea farms as blood donors, which are taken a little out before freeing the animal again. Their blood (blue) is unique, because it contains a compound that detects the slightest bacterial contamination in objects, medical utilities and medications.
    It¡s important in medicine and Pharma industry, which also collateral effect had avoided the extiction of this animal, which before was a real risk.

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    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s a lot of blood

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