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All humans develop a tail in the womb that eventually dissolves.
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The penises of human ancestors were covered in hard spines. Theorists believe these spines possibly helped a mans sperm overtake that of his competitors. As humans became more monogamous, the spines became obsolete.
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That this is what atheists actually believe

https://media0.giphy.com/media/ujuo6uFJZOUtW/source.gif

Axolotls. They evolved so as to not hit the equivalent of puberty, since the aquatic environment was better than the terrestrial one that their adult forms move to.

Maybe anime will do the same thing to humans.

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That there are so many different ways it can happen.
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https://youtu.be/nXMOvMba2bM

Symptoms began exhibiting in teenagers known as the x-factor, granting extraordinary abilities like time travel.

Guide posted...

Axolotls. They evolved so as to not hit the equivalent of puberty, since the aquatic environment was better than the terrestrial one that their adult forms move to.

Maybe anime will do the same thing to humans.

So cute!
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DuranOfForcena posted...

the recurrent laryngeal nerve of the giraffe:

The extreme detour of the recurrent laryngeal nerves, about 4.6 metres (15 ft) in the case of giraffes,[26]:7475 is cited as evidence of evolution, as opposed to Intelligent Design. The nerve's route would have been direct in the fish-like ancestors of modern tetrapods, traveling from the brain, past the heart, to the gills (as it does in modern fish). Over the course of evolution, as the neck extended and the heart became lower in the body, the laryngeal nerve was caught on the wrong side of the heart. Natural selection gradually lengthened the nerve by tiny increments to accommodate, resulting in the circuitous route now observed.[27]:360362

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_laryngeal_nerve#Evidence_of_evolution

there's a great video on youtube of Richard Dawkins taking a university class through the dissection of a giraffe and demonstrating this. i don't want to post it though cuz i'm not sure if it would get modded or not, since it prominently features an actual giraffe corpse, skinless and preserved.

I will look that up
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Fucking giraffes lmao

Beating each other with their big fucking necks, licking their earholes, sending live birth hurtling from 13ft into the fucking ground

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