• cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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    Efficiency is making the same structure work for dual purposes…like garbage disposal + procreation.

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    You know what the alternatives are, right? either we have two mouths, or we speak with our nostrils and the silent, gaping hole below only unhinges for the consumption of organic matter.

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    Last change made by Evolution, commit message “ehh good enough TODO fix in next release”, 500 million years ago

  • TheChemist [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Maybe we should get an update on the human body. For example, permanently remove Body Hair, since it no longer serves any function.

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      It does? Look at your arms when you’re cold, you’ll see all your tiny hairs are standing to help prevent the body from losing too much heat.

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        It’s either cold enough that I’m gonna die or it’s not. Those tiny hairs aren’t going to save me in a situation where it would matter.

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          “It’s either cold enough that I’m gonna die or it’s not. Not sitting on the cold floor isn’t going to save me in a situation where it would matter.”

          Until you remember that your body needs energy to heat your body, and needs less energy when you lose less, having more spare energy for other things like your immune system.

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            Yes but how much heat are those hairs actually saving? In real terms I doubt it’s a number that’s meaningful at all. Like if you had 2 clones and one had their hair shaved and one didn’t, I’m not convinced you could even measure the difference without super sensitive tools and even then it would be a fraction of a degree.

            I also doubt there’s any situation where, all else being equal, one would survive and one wouldn’t purely on the basis of having those hairs.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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      It does tho. Reducing friction to avoid irritation and keeping up an isolating micro climate.

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    identical unmarked doors

    Bro I don’t think you are supposed to look at it to determine which way food goes

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    Thinking about how smell might have developed is kind of cool. Some mutation allowing cells to detect smell (something modern science is kind of puzzled by) then just sending those signals to the brain and saying, you figure it out. I’d bet there is some other property of matter that exists that we have no ability to detect.