i also have my doubts. i suspect theyre being unnecessarily reductive in what they mean by "necessary genes". they probably just mean our dna has encoding for all the proteins required to make feathers, but none of the developmental genes to create the specialized cells and tissues to actually do it. which i suspect means we're missing most of the genes required to make feathers,
Are you sure? Cause once there were dinos, and then not. And then there were humans, but never humans and dinos at the same time. So who nose, maybe there's a homosaurus in our lineage /s
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PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 19 pts · 3d
I have my doubts since afaik feathers only really evolved with the dinosaurs, who are not in our ancestry
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 20 pts · 3d
i also have my doubts. i suspect theyre being unnecessarily reductive in what they mean by "necessary genes". they probably just mean our dna has encoding for all the proteins required to make feathers, but none of the developmental genes to create the specialized cells and tissues to actually do it. which i suspect means we're missing most of the genes required to make feathers,
Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2d
A hammer is the only tool you need to build a house say builders
festnt@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2d
pterosaurs did have proto feathers too, but only the ones closer to birds got asymmetrical "flight" feathers
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 2d
Are you sure? Cause once there were dinos, and then not. And then there were humans, but never humans and dinos at the same time. So who nose, maybe there's a homosaurus in our lineage /s
PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 2d
homosaurus sounds like a savage prehistoric slur
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1d
oh god i think homosaurus, RUN BEFORE IT KILLS US
- Antelopes (who for some reason speak with a british accent), circa 2.1 Million Years Ago