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jayrockin · 3 months

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would vestigial be the best way to describe a chabbit’s wings? Seeing as they were never flight capable to begin with.

That's a great question, because afaik "vestigial" describes an ancestral trait that through evolution, has lost its functionality in a given organism. Chabbits... uh... were not selected for by the usual evolutionary processes, and have polyphyletic ancestors. Describing GMOs with evolutionary terms gets weird fast

#chabbits were not naturally selected #but if you wanna get real weird about it #maybe we can argue that humans are part of the natural world #thus selection and engineering by humans is an extension of natural selection #and so GMOs are ''naturally'' evolved. totally.#jaytext #runaway to the stars

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