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Fantastic addition to the conversation, thank you
I really like that theory too. It further expands that vision is what granted us intelligence as creatures coming on land could see significantly further and thus start planning and reacting to distant changes giving birth to modern intelligence. To add, whales developed this intelligence and went back to the ocean to absolutely dominate it.
This video is really interesting and made me realize what a huge evolutionary advantage it is to be able to remember things - something we take completely for granted, but isn’t required to survive.
Why do you find that particular theory about the Cambrian Explosion compelling? I assume mankind is putting a similar pressure on many ecosystems today, so shouldn’t we be seeing that kind of evolutionary explosion happening now?
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It is happening now but evolution takes a long time. If there were a ton of adaptations that happened in the next 10,000 years, that would be incredibly fast on an evolutionary timescale
Humans have only been dominant for a few thousand years. Give it like a million for enough evolution to happen and then ask this question again.
!remindme 1 million years ask this question again
Just give it another million years or so.
Humans are blitzkrieging the troposphere. Nothing could hope to evolve fast enough except fungi and bacteria I guess
trilobites were the creature that way-back-when invented effective predation shortly after evolving vision.
The fact that their closet living relative, the horseshoe crab, has remained pretty much unchanged for up to 480 million years lends credence to the idea that their design works very well.
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this is the bug equivalent of those memes about wolves becoming pugs
I don’t follow sorry. Could you explain?
I was just making a silly joke and also trying to point out that genetic memory red in tooth and claw stuff is fucking weird.
Like this
But they also became the noble greyhound
Thats about as noble as me flopping off the top bunk of a toyhauler right into the floor.
You’re talking about my daughter here. Tread softly.
Cute, but not noble. Mind ya my hounds are not noble in the slightest either.
I think that peacock spiders and related species can help people get past arachnophobia. They’re cute, they’re intelligent, and they have entertaining behaviors. The fact that they have the two large forward facing eyes makes them look less alien.
If you want to try exposure therapy for arachnophobia, they’re a great starting point imo.
We’ve got some pretty big centipedes around here, and they’re one of very few animals I slaughter ruthlessly without remorse. I have a hammer for the express purpose of braining them. Fuckers don’t need an excuse to bite you, they just do. And, they love bedsheets, clothes, etc. Ironically, we also have house centipedes, and they get a pass. They’re hideous, sure, but anything that eats cockroach eggs (another one I kill without remorse) is A-OK in my book.
Where do you live? I’d like to know so I can put that on my list of places to not go.
Sorry to tell you that my particular location is pretty much irrelevant. Centipedes and roaches are just about everywhere. The further north you go, the safer you are.
Can confirm. Am north, no centipedes in my clothes or roach eggs in my house.
That you know of.
Centipedes sure but we don’t get the big tropical horrors in Europe.
Yet…
Don’t move to the American Southeast. Look up palmetto bugs.
Let me put it to you this way:
I would rather slam my fingers in a car door than move to the South.
People see insects as extremely weak but they’re the ones who despite being a thousandth of your size can still consistently ruin your day. Now imagine that scaled up and given a lifespan which allows them to develop intelligence and you’ll start to understand why my insectsona would absolutely fuck up your dragonsona in a fight.
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There’s five million ants for every human, should they decide to fuck us up, they will.
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Nah my Sauropodsona would still wreck your insectsona
It wouldn’t have any viable attacks assuming they would even be able to target a relatively small creature who can fly.
Fucking fascinating.
Well now my mild arachnophobia seems a bit insufficient.
I am calling for total arthropod death
Good news for you
But I’m not scared of them at all
