They dont. It just happens that natural selection favored flowers that looked vaguely bird like and over time, flowers that looked more and more like a bird outcompeted the ones that looked less like one.
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Annihilation vibes
I rewatched Annihilation recently. That fucking bear scene still haunts me. Great film.
"..how birds look like.."
Just one of many issues with the English here.
- what it looks like
- how it looks
You need to pick a lane.
No they're asking how do birds look like the way they do. In which case the answer is that a bird's body evolved to be streamlined and lightweight in order to fly more efficiently. /s
Did you understand what was being communicated? Yes? Congratulations!
Because, really, that's generally all that's necessary.
I'd read this with commas around 'like', rather than with a period after it: "... how birds look, like, I'm afraid" works as a sentence while "... how birds look like. I'm afraid" is both wrong, like you point out, but also sounds much more serious than the jokey tone I'd expect from a message without punctuation and capitalization
I typically assume it's a non-native speaker with things like this, but I'm not sure in this case.
"Appear to look like"...
I wonder what they look like if you manage to ignore the appearances.
My guess would be Yulan magnolia blossoms.
Why are people so unfathomably dumb, like, I'm afraid.
Yeah, some people can't even recognize a joke.
Right, anytime anyone fucks up it's sarcasm, anytime anyone is dumb, it's a joke, nothing is real, everything is a cake.
“Science memes”
Are you trying to suggest that your use of punctuation is sarcastic?
Irony poisoning
That sounds serious
Fe-real
i like cake
People don't get the timescale of a evolutionary feature like this. And how long it was only kinda bird like.
Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it. But yeah either trolling or actually stupid who knows.
Intuitively understanstanding evolution is something most people dont need so i cant really fault people for it.
LOL, how meta ("people haven't evolved to understand evolution").
*gestures broadly*
I mean you just gotta use that big ass evolved brain of yours to understand evolution. No more extra evolution necessary at this point.
I do wish that the personification of evolution wasn't such a thing. People so often attribute reasoning or intention to the process, when there is no such thing.
Wait until they advance and start thinking about things like, how did plants find out what bees like to eat. This will spook them to mind-blown town.