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Unsurpassable power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crabtree
Good moaning!
The absolute peak of evolution. Everyone, go home.
Its called convergent evolution and you also have some shit you wouldnt believe that makes all apes similar to us.
here’s a cool blog post that expands on this There’s no such thing as a tree (phylogenetically)
i didn’t even put it in a bookmark folder, it’s just loose on my bookmark bar because it’s such an interesting post that i reread from time to time
tbf isn't a tree just a plant but big? makes sense that any plant species can evolve into a tree just by getting bigger
Well there are certain features needed for a plant to get that big. So those features had to evolve independently each time which is a bit interesting. Wood is the famous example.
fair enough
Oh, to be as famous as wood
It's better than bad, it's good!
Had to look it up because I didnt beleive
sure enough its correct
Something poetic and quaint about a link to a Wikipedia article titled "Tree"
reddit has broken me. I was expecting it to point to weed.
And it's not even one creature or even type of creature. Look up rhizobium.
Tbf, as we learn more about our gut microbiomes, it turns out that humans are that way as well. Maybe that's why we have the thoughts in our heads vs. the feelings in our guts... (no that's actually not it at all, except... isn't it though?).
I figure the feeling of being in your head is simply due to your eyeballs being located there. Now I want to put a 3d camera on my hips, and steam it to VR goggles.
The hips do not lie. Ipso facto, you would be seeing ultimate truth.
It turns out that the meaning of life is at crotch level.
Something, something, biology.
So now I actually think this idea is on to something brilliant. I have been diving into neuroscience lately and this sounds like an amazing experimental method.
It’s like non-surgically transplanting your eyes into your hips. Why do that? To further refine brain-body mapping.
We turn our head instinctively to aid vision. Once our brain realizes that visual input improves only when we move our hips, body awareness will shift significantly.
@DoubleSpace@lemm.ee the best ideas start as jokes
Nature likes things that turn hard- Wait what?
Weren't there like, several millions of years where trees evolved but nothing had come yet to break down wood, so like, generations of dead forest just fell on top of each other until some fungus was like "that looks yummy"?
Yes, that's when coal comes from. There were giant global fire storms, because of all the dead trees and also because there was more oxygen. The oxygen also caused insects to become gigantic. They don't have lungs, just random holes in their body so the airs oxygen content limits their size.
The molecule is called lignin. And yes, there was a good 60 million years before that particular problem was cracked.
Next is plastics
First, we bio-engineer bacteria and fungi to prefer plastic as food.
Second, these bacteria become a serious endopathogen in the human body while scavenging our precious bodily microplastics.
Third, we engineer a bacteriophage to attack the bacteria in our brains.
Fourth…
The whole human comedy just keeps going and going
I know an old woman who swallowed a fly...
The beautiful part is that when wintertime rolls around the gorillas simply freeze to death
Heh, branch
The future is gonna be tree with crabs....
Land will be trees, beaches will be crabs, and I've heard oceans will be nothing but jellyfish
So crabapple trees...?
evolution intensifies
Fish too
I thought crab-like animals were all actually pretty closely related to each other, i.e. all crab-like animals are arthropods, which is a less broad category (despite the incredibly huge amount of species in it) than 'all the plants that can form a wooden trunk'. Any taxonomists here to confirm/deny?
Things have independently evolved into crabs like five times or something
Yes, but I think OP’s point is those 5-6 crab-events all came from a narrow taxonomic group. All plant families have some trees. Only one sub-group of animals contains crabs.
It is as if all trees only came from members of the lily family.
Trees are tall because trees are tall.
I want to be a tree too when I grow up!
this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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