ACKSHUALLY that's not how evolution works.
It's not a linear process with the goal of developing intelligence.
It's a linear process with the goal of developing crabs.
I remember reading somewhere that the indigenous people of a SE Asian country believed that orangutans could speak, but chose not to because they would be forced to work if humans found out
They didn't. They keep evolving different way than human.
Ape evolution is slow. We can't see it due to our preception of time. They just seem to exist as is and the gene pool is quite narrow.
So you know how it feels weird showing someone an unfinished poem or whatever? I haven't got the fenders on my bike yet. They're just sitting there. Have been for a year. I gotta figure out how to install them (long story. Well okay not really they fit street tires but the dude I bought the bike from put these fancy tires with cool sidewalls on and they are too big. It's an orange bike and the tires are orange. I'll put the damn fenders on when I get new damn stupid fucking boring tires)
so like divergent evolution. there was a common ancestor. we evolved to go to work. they were smart and evolved to be communal banana eating tree peoples. fucking geniuses.
The smartest thing I ever heard about evolution: „It’s rolling dice and keeping the sixes.“ There is neither a goal, nor a peak. Evolution is a load of completely random mutations. The ones that help a species to survive in their specific environment are „kept“.
Also oftentimes, stuff that was kept because it makes thing possible, turns out to be useful for completly different thing
Fingers helping apes climb, but they also allowed the use of tools.
It's worth pointing out that evolution sometimes will just randomly evolve traits that don't really help a creature survive more, it just doesn't make it worse at surviving.
if you have it, life is hard. pre-modern-medicine you died young. however if you are just a carrier (you have to carry two recessive genes to have the disease, but if you only have one you're a carrier. i think it's recessive, i learned this 20 years ago) you have remarkable resistance to malaria.
Without referencing H. G. Wells' The Time Machine or species of the Homo genus aside from Sapiens, describe what you think it would look like after humans split into two new clades.
Not like pale humans with brain mass exposed at least
There's proof that we still select for more gracility, despite our bones already being close to as thin as they can, without getting blood amenia. So, maybe more elf-like.
Or, if we fuck it up and devastate earth with a nuclear war, like the disfigured small "aliens" in Blake and Mortimer, with additional "filters" in the nose and so on.
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mech@feddit.org · 54 pts · 95d
ACKSHUALLY that's not how evolution works.
It's not a linear process with the goal of developing intelligence.
It's a linear process with the goal of developing crabs.
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 95d
Forget about returning to monke. March sideways unto crab. 🦀
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 94d
But.... monke!
zedgeist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 94d
No more butt monkey!
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 94d
There is a game about that https://store.steampowered.com/app/3526710/
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 94d
:3
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 94d
THANK you
all hail crab god
tuberman@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 95d
i know it's a joke. but every animal alive is just as evolved as us. that includes apes (which we also are), zebras, fish and earthworms.
Rudee@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 94d
I remember reading somewhere that the indigenous people of a SE Asian country believed that orangutans could speak, but chose not to because they would be forced to work if humans found out
DanceMomsSavedMe@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 94d
This is different but sort of the same energy.
I asked my dad one time "Wouldn't it be awesome if we didn't need to sleep?"
And he go wide eyed with a horrified expression on his face and said "Hell no, can you imagine how much they'd make you work??"
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 94d
I feel like even if that was untrue in the past, it’s definitely not untrue today
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 94d
it's a good myth. i like that the tooth fairy is a raccoon. i'm not sure why. i just like the image of it. got the right size hands.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 94d
OooOok
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 15 pts · 95d
Apes are constantly changing, including humans. How fit the survivors are now that Humanity has fucked everything up is questionable.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 95d
I’m gonna stop working and hope that’s a survival trait.
FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 10 pts · 95d
Narrator: It wasn't
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 94d
mr_anny@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 94d
They didn't. They keep evolving different way than human. Ape evolution is slow. We can't see it due to our preception of time. They just seem to exist as is and the gene pool is quite narrow.
BloodMuffin@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 94d
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 94d
The human/gorilla common ancestor walked upright on two feet. Humans kept it, gorillas evolved towards foot/knuckle walking.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 94d
some of us humans (such as me) are heading back toward knuckle walking
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 94d
Video or it didn't happen
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 94d
no need. I have a recumbent tricycle and used to snowboard. i'm literally a knuckle dragger
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 94d
Now I definitely need a video for that recumbent tricycle
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 94d
So you know how it feels weird showing someone an unfinished poem or whatever? I haven't got the fenders on my bike yet. They're just sitting there. Have been for a year. I gotta figure out how to install them (long story. Well okay not really they fit street tires but the dude I bought the bike from put these fancy tires with cool sidewalls on and they are too big. It's an orange bike and the tires are orange. I'll put the damn fenders on when I get new damn stupid fucking boring tires)
MyVeryRealName@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 93d
:(
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 93d
i have a good relationship with my local bike shoppé (they deserve the é) and i'm willing to pay them the markup to find tires that fit that are cool and have flames on the sidewalls or whatever, but like, not until these ones are done. reduce reuse rebullshit y'know
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 10 pts · 94d
WE are apes too, so they did evolve and have to go to work.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 94d
so like divergent evolution. there was a common ancestor. we evolved to go to work. they were smart and evolved to be communal banana eating tree peoples. fucking geniuses.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 94d
They didn't stop evolving. Neither did humans.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 94d
Some humans did
Hegar@fedia.io · 7 pts · 95d
[Morbo voice] Evolution does not work that way!
getFrog@piefed.social · 7 pts · 94d
not how evolution works.
vivalapivo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 94d
But you do
5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org · 6 pts · 94d
The smartest thing I ever heard about evolution: „It’s rolling dice and keeping the sixes.“ There is neither a goal, nor a peak. Evolution is a load of completely random mutations. The ones that help a species to survive in their specific environment are „kept“.
Also oftentimes, stuff that was kept because it makes thing possible, turns out to be useful for completly different thing Fingers helping apes climb, but they also allowed the use of tools.
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 94d
It's worth pointing out that evolution sometimes will just randomly evolve traits that don't really help a creature survive more, it just doesn't make it worse at surviving.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 94d
i want to point out sickle cell anemia.
if you have it, life is hard. pre-modern-medicine you died young. however if you are just a carrier (you have to carry two recessive genes to have the disease, but if you only have one you're a carrier. i think it's recessive, i learned this 20 years ago) you have remarkable resistance to malaria.
life is funny that way.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 94d
I mean, DNA does have regulatory and feedback mechanisms. Some of which we don't even understand yet.
I find "it's always just patches" from software engineering more fitting.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 94d
they did not "stop evolving", thats not how it works
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 95d
Without referencing H. G. Wells' The Time Machine or species of the Homo genus aside from Sapiens, describe what you think it would look like after humans split into two new clades.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 94d
Not like pale humans with brain mass exposed at least
There's proof that we still select for more gracility, despite our bones already being close to as thin as they can, without getting blood amenia. So, maybe more elf-like.
Or, if we fuck it up and devastate earth with a nuclear war, like the disfigured small "aliens" in Blake and Mortimer, with additional "filters" in the nose and so on.
jared@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 94d
lengau@midwest.social · 3 pts · 94d
They didn't stop evolving. They just evolved better.
nuko147@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 94d
I would say, from all Apes on earth, we are the only ones who are working 8 hours for living.
WanderWisley@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 94d
Return to monkey!
echodot@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 94d
The real question is what was the point in evolving if they were just going to evolve into morons like whoever made this.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 94d
Ape together make union!
sirico@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 94d
Stone age bonobo