It’s so telling that it’s been a long established chanlord policy that “anything goes” on /b/ except furry art. Gore and snuff are fine, but that? Outrageous! wojak-nooo

    • SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      We frequently use words like “choice” to speak about things like evolutionary dynamics because they make the talk more interesting. It’s a deliberate misuse of the phrase in some ways, but it implies that natural selection ended up canalizing snakes into a specific evolutionary pathway - one instead of many possible others - based on innumerable factors but all being by definition locally (in time and place) more or less favorable.

      I appreciate the input and thank you for the clarification for readers - although I don’t imagine many people thought there was some Ur-snake who said “fuck these legs.”

      For the record, I am an evolutionary biologist.

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        I don’t imagine many people thought there was some Ur-snake who said “fuck these legs.”

        quite literally they grow penises in their place which was the weirdest fact I learned today