Random mutations are the least potent source of change in evolutionary mechanisms. So much so that some experts don’t even consider them as one.
Reinforcement of already existing traits through variation between individuals under environmental preasure is the main mechanism. (i.e. when food sources are high, individuals with longest reach are the fittest).
You seriously believe in Lamarck? Like, I don’t know, I’m not a native speaker, maybe I’m missing something.
How many fucking times do we have to repeat this: TRAITS ACQUIRED DURING LIFETIME ARE NON-INHERITABLE
If you lose your fingers in an industrial accident, your children aren’t going to be born fingerless, are they?
Giraffes don’t have long necks because one little giraffe long, long ago tried really, really hard to grow a longer neck, but because giraffes who had been born with longer necks could compete better than those without, and pass on their genes. And they got those necks due to mutations.
Environmental pressure selects for benefitial mutations, while the mutations themselves are random. That’s literally the mechanism of evolution through natural selection.
Neither am I a native speaker so I worded my joke poorly. I elaborated in another comment but let me point out that in epigenetics, traits gained during lifetime are inherited, but within the range of what mutations “allow”.
But not by Darwin. The modern evolution theory is a synthesis of Darwin and Mendel. I should have elaborated but the joke was that Darwin didn’t have mutations in his theory yet and when you stick to Darwin Claus, there ain’t no mutations
To be fair to him, this type of variations could also be due to epigenetics, although he obviously has a rather fuzzy understanding of what he’s talking about.
When I was a kid I had a friend who would go around saying you can fit a raccoon in your butthole. I’ve never forgotten it, but I’ve also never worked up the nerve to find out if that’s true (for clarity, I mean via internet search, not via experimentation). It haunts me (・_・;)
If you make 90% the area of your city dedicated to roads leaving only 10% buildings, you can barely just get traffic under control trust me. Just like in real life.
To be fair on the deer, no natural predator is going to be chasing them at that kind of speed, so their instincts have no reason to be adapted to understanding objects moving that fast
no natural predator is going to be chasing them at that kind of speed, so their instincts have no reason to be adapted
Nonsense. Deer, including wild deer, live in parts of the world where that threat exists.
Adaptation being beneficial for survival is about what IS, not only what’s natural. As far as reasons go, survival is kind of a big one for “instincts to be adapted”.
Sure, but evolution takes a long time and cars have been a common enough threat to potentially cause selection pressure for what, a century or so maybe?
Nah dude, that don’t make no sense. Do animals only ever run from predators? Do they not have an instinct to avoid colliding with objects? Do they simply let 2 tons of steel smash into them just because it doesn’t look like anything they know that would want to eat them?
Poor baby. Those are booty pants too. They are supposed to hug your butt and make it look big. My wife and I saw a lady getting on a plane with them on. We pointed and giggled while she secretly ordered a pair.
Not sure about the actor in the pic, but whoever took it would definitely be fired and put on a do not rehire list if they figured out who it was because they pretty explicitly tell you during Traditions to not ruin the “magic” for other people (and it leads to some weird language games to not break their quasi kayfabe), but I think I agree with whoever said this was not Disney, that costume looks sus.
thank you, I’ve been racking my brain rereading every word in that sentence looking for the “f”. That “of” kept hiding in plain sight. Either that or I’m blind.
Would someone have the guts to hang this on a wall?
I would.
In the bedroom? Yes. A reminder to do something in bed besides sleeping and eventually a reminder of times when lust was a much stronger driving force in life.
In the office? Yes. There is nothing wrong or offensive in the picture; your mind is getting into the gutter by itself.
In the living room? Yes. Great conversation starter.
By the front door? Yes. Oh yes. The face on anyone knocking unsolicited when spoting that strategically placed painting.
He’s being sarcastic because only rich people can afford four blueberries with the money left over after paying rent. The rest of us pay 90% of our paycheck for rent then starve because we don’t have enough money left to buy four blueberries.
I live near Austin, and home prices have tripled since 2019, driving more people to apartments while cities ban new apartment complexes.
I’ve been fortunate enough to get a few promotions and double my pay in the last 18 months, but with the increases in rent and other expenses I actually end up having about the same amount of disposable income as when I made half as much money, and rent is a higher percentage of my expenses than it was before my raises.
And I haven’t moved into a more expensive place. I’ve lived in the same place for a decade now.
it’s funny cuz at first glance this looks like generic reddity sarcasm, but it made me think: while a lot of people paying half their wages to rent are in poverty, a lot of people with expensive homes are also probably living outside their means. all I know is my rent ain’t anywhere close to half
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