Evolution

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• Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are just so few optimal solutions to the same problem.

  It’s also why we should always try to copy nature when it comes to technology.

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  • sparkyshocks@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We should always look to nature, yes. A lot of aerodynamic designs seem to look a lot like the world’s fastest birds. Trees really do seem to optimize for capturing solar energy in an easily encoded blueprint.

    But also there are a few areas where we should recognize the limits of scope of the solutions nature has provided, or recognize the path dependency in how evolution might optimize for a particular pathway that no longer should continue to pose a restriction (the giraffe’s recurrent laryngeal nerve, for example).

    We’re allowed to mix and match. Just gotta be careful and recognize just how powerful billions of years of evolution is, as an optimization method.

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    • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A lot of aerodynamic designs seem to look a lot like the world’s fastest birds.

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  • qualia@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Coral are trees.

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  • harambe69@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Trees are coral. Dead wood/dead limestone, wrapped over with living tissue.

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  • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Coral trees are make of rock wood and each leaf is it’s own organism.

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  • Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    everything in nature has analagous structures. if you don’t see them you’re either looking too close or too far and you need to shift your perspective. a coral reef is a forest and the corals are the trees.

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  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Image

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is lemmy. It’s not like we need a special time

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah, it’s a routine.

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• muntedcrocodile@hilariouschaos.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think its even wilder to think about that sharks existed prior to trees

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  • rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sharks also existed prior to Saturn’s rings

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    • Signtist@bookwyr.me ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And Polaris! (the North star)

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And Taylor Swift, but not Liza Minelli (she is eternal)

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  • qualia@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And dinosaurs existed for ~160 million years before grasses. runs to cross-reference all my illustrated childhood books’ dinosaur species extinction timelines and the presence of grass!!

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• rockerface@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There’s also anteaters

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are anteaters! Well done!

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Big if true

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• plyth@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

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  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It is worth noting – as someone who’s reasonably knowledgeable about arguably the main example, king crabs – that carcinisation is really interesting, but I think some people took the meme semi-unironically as this especially widespread example of convergent evolution.

    In reality, it’s in the true crabs’ sister infraorder, Anomura. Which is still super cool, but even the faintest notion that crabs are some singularly ideal male body body form is just a runaway shitpost.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      the faintest notion that crabs are some singularly ideal male body body form is just a runaway shitpost.

      What about that sounds like something I wouldn’t want to start a cult about?

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    • KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What meme?

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  • joshchandra@midwest.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Why couldn’t they just have called it “crabinization?”

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      sounds like getting lice.

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• Kellenved@sh.itjust.works ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The word “tree” just describes a plant phenotype, nothing more

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  • Zorcron@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fish

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bzzz Bzzz went the fish

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• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Orson Scott Card was right*.

  *About one particular thing.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    angry, well I’m not sure whether my morality gland, my hedonism gland, or my good writing gland is more offended but whichever it is it’s making angry noises

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  • Chakravanti@monero.town ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    In Speaker for the Dead?

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    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.cafe ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yes, piggy.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  or become a supernatural angel.

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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Fun fact: that’s a human in the original.

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I thoughts snakes are all related?

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legless_lizard

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So the meme isn’t about Snakes but limbless lizards that look like snakes

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