#EVOLUTION

[yesterdaysprint]

The Oakland Post Enquirer, California, May 9, 1927

[nevershootamockingbird]

[ ID taken from Alt Text: Tiktaalik, a large lobe finned fish with a flat head, swims through a creek surrounded by fern / End ID ]

Hi Tiktaalik

[obscurevideogames]

Evolution Worlds (Sting - GameCube - 2003)

[thesilicontribesman]

Replica of Homo Erectus, 'Turkana Boy', 1.6 Million Years Old, Liverpool World Museum

[katborg82]

Dinovember day 10!!

[save-the-choppers]

[olive-ridley]

All roads lead to Rome, all lineages evolve to CRAB 🦀🦀

[druid-for-hire]

[image id: a four-page comic. it is titled "immortality” after the poem by clare harner (more popularly known as “do not stand at my grave and weep”). the first page shows paleontologists digging up fossils at a dig. it reads, “do not stand at my grave and weep. i am not there. i do not sleep.” page two features several prehistoric creatures living in the wild. not featured but notable, each have modern descendants: horses, cetaceans, horsetail plants, and crocodilians. it reads, “i am a thousand winds that blow. i am the diamond glints on snow. i am the sunlight on ripened grain. i am the gentle autumn rain.” the third page shows archaeopteryx in the treetops and the skies, then a modern museum-goer reading the placard on a fossil display. it reads, “when you awaken in the morning’s hush, i am the swift uplifting rush, of quiet birds in circled flight. i am the soft stars that shine at night. do not stand at my grave and cry.” the fourth page shows a chicken in a field. it reads, “i am not there. i did not die” / end id]

a comic i made in about 15 hours for my school’s comic anthology. the theme was “evolution”

[theartofmadeline]

i promise i wouldn't blame you

[samimarkart]

Grounded Flight

2024, decolorant screenprint on quilted cotton

[casualcarpetshark]

BOW DOWN TO THE ANCIENT ONE

[obscurevideogames]

"Mystery man"

Evolution Worlds (Sting - GameCube - 2003)

[prokopetz]

If you've seen trivia posts going around, may have seen ones about the baculum, a bone in the penis whose purpose is to help support erections which is present in most placental mammals, including non-human apes, but which is conspicuously absent in humans.

Those posts typically don't go into why this is the case, which is fair enough, since the question is far from settled. However, there are a lot of hypotheses about it, and some of them are pretty fucking wild.

I think my personal favourite is the recently proposed idea that, since soft tissue injuries tend to heal more rapidly and completely than broken bones, a flexible and resilient boneless penis constitutes a reproductive advantage in situations where genital trauma is common, possibly as a result of the development of upright posture rendering the penis more prone to blunt encounters.

Like, imagine humanity's proto-hominid ancestors going "actually, bipedalism is great" and promptly getting whacked in the ding so much that it exerted evolutionary pressure on the morphology of the penis.

[scentedwonderlandpoetry]

Further new discoveries have been made on my theory.

[todaysbird]

Thank you Grandpa Iridescence…