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[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

Fun fact: Almost every species of jumping spider evolved color vision separately.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Convergent would be two people coincidentally making the same meme

[–] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

I disagree.

Posting the same joke with different meme formats would be the equivalent of convergent evolution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

I think two different meme templates that are used for the same type of joke could be considered the equivalent too. To me it makes more sense to compare a meme template to a species and a particular meme to an individual of a species.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

,̶'̶ ̶ ̶,̶ ̶|̶ ̶,̶'̶ ̶_̶'̶

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Is this the real life?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Nature's repost would be gene transfer. Both horizontal and vertical

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Plants literally clone themselves

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Unless used as a verb, then it's divergent.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

Sometimes classics are classics for a reason. And by classics I mean crabs 🦀.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget trees. There are so many different lineages for trees.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

and trains, trains are also a peak of evolution, hopefully we'll get there biologically too someday

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago

Also Mustelids, because Mustelids are hella cute and who can blame nature for wanting to create more cute things?!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

RETURN 🦀 TO 🦀 CRAB

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

The destiny of all species is to eventually become crab.

Why do you think humans have evolved to have less hair than our ancestors? Its the start of a long journey that will eventually being us back to CRABB.