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Not sure 'beautiful' or 'lucky' are words i'd use to describe it. Did you catch that the males of tuskless mothers generally don't survive, decimating the male
by geoffmanning 5y ago
Not sure 'beautiful' or 'lucky' are words i'd use to describe it. Did you catch that the males of tuskless mothers generally don't survive, decimating the male population? It's a tragic and desperate response, though quite incredible that such a dramatic evolutionary trait can occur. It makes me wonder what we could become, if only...
- _jal 5y ago> if only... If only humans were harvested for bony growths?
- geoffmanning 5y agoLOL. Yes.
- kuratkull 5y agoTusks are not bones
- teeray 5y agoLife, uh, finds a way…
- vmception 5y agoBeautiful, lucky, bad Incredible, good
- geoffmanning 5y agoNot quite sure what you're getting at. The definitions of those words can't simply be categorized as good or bad. Beautiful and lucky do, however, somewhat infer a positive outcome in the context they were used. Incredible infers neither positive nor negative. It means that it's simply extraordinary that such a thing could occur, outside the bounds of previous beliefs.
- vmception 5y agoI personally find the natural selection process to be beautiful to witness, the adaptive pressures to be incredible, and the cause to be tragic Not mutually exclusive
- geoffmanning 5y agoContext matters.
- vmception 5y agoIt never needed elaboration even from the person you initially replied to.
- geoffmanning 5y agoYet here we are. Thanks for contributing.
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- cabalamat 5y agoMaybe the males will evolve ways to survive with the tusklessness gene.