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Absolutely fascinating! Is there any other animal known to have evolved like that?
by kelsolaar 6y ago
Absolutely fascinating! Is there any other animal known to have evolved like that?
- nn3 6y agoThere is an insect species with live birth, where the males never get born, but mate with their sisters while still in the mother's body. The sisters then get born already pregnant. I guess they beat the anglerfish in weirdness.
- sriacha 6y agoThere's an excellent essay by the evolutionary biologist Steven Jay Gould about sexual dimorphism [0], mostly in the context of anglerfish, but which also mentions a parasitic mollusk, of which the male embeds itself in the female body and looses most all organs except the testes. That same essay leaves us with this gem of a quote: "In some ultimate Freudian sense, what male could resist the fantasy of a life as a penis with a heart, deeply and permanently embedded within a caring and providing female?" [0] https://books.google.com/books?id=o6g2tvN0nJoC&lpg=PT15&ots=dAd72sWoLa&dq=gould+big+fish+little+fish&pg=PT15&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=o6g2tvN0nJoC&lpg=PT15&ots=...