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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Sometimes classics are classics for a reason. And by classics I mean crabs 🦀.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

RETURN 🦀 TO 🦀 CRAB

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

The destiny of all species is to eventually become crab.

Why do you think humans have evolved to have less hair than our ancestors? Its the start of a long journey that will eventually being us back to CRABB.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Don't forget trees. There are so many different lineages for trees.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

and trains, trains are also a peak of evolution, hopefully we'll get there biologically too someday

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Also Mustelids, because Mustelids are hella cute and who can blame nature for wanting to create more cute things?!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I disagree.

Posting the same joke with different meme formats would be the equivalent of convergent evolution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I think two different meme templates that are used for the same type of joke could be considered the equivalent too. To me it makes more sense to compare a meme template to a species and a particular meme to an individual of a species.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

,̶'̶ ̶ ̶,̶ ̶|̶ ̶,̶'̶ ̶_̶'̶

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Is this the real life?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Fun fact: Almost every species of jumping spider evolved color vision separately.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Convergent would be two people coincidentally making the same meme

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nature's repost would be gene transfer. Both horizontal and vertical

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Plants literally clone themselves

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Unless used as a verb, then it's divergent.