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xkcd #3199: Early Arthropods (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3199: Early Arthropods

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'Ugh, I'm never going to be like spiders. My descendants will all just be normal arthropods who mind their own busines and don't do anything weird.' --The ancestor of a bunch of eusocial insects

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3199/

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[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Spiders always confused me because of my limited understanding in evolution ans general biology.
Traits build up over generations instead of being gained overnight, no?

Was there a generation of ancestor spiders that could make very little amount of string and couldn't build webs yet, but it did help them survive and reproduce nonethless?

[-] Laser@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Little did arthropods 1 and 3 know that ultimately, they'd just do like 2

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