Ricki Yasha TarrMay 26, 2024
Sometimes when you learn how something works, you think, Thanks knowledge, that really helped, everything makes more sense, and other times you look up how wrists turn, and it's like WTF?!
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@RickiTarr Oh, just wait until you look at some comparative evolutionary anatomy. It’s surprising we’re here at all.

Tldr; God is a bodger.

May 26, 2024 at 3:33pmWeb
Show threadEveryday.Human DerekMay 26, 2024

@BashStKid @RickiTarr
Ohh yeah.

https://www.britannica.com/animal/Tiktaalik-roseae
I’m constantly amazed. Trying to do a course on evbio. It’s not easy as there’s sooo sooo many variables and variation even within species.

The above according to Neil Shubin is our relative about 375 Mya I think.

Tiktaalik roseae | Fossil Vertebrate, Devonian Fish

Tiktaalik roseae, an extinct fishlike aquatic animal that lived about 380–385 million years ago (during the earliest late Devonian Period) and was a very close relative of the direct ancestors of tetrapods (four-legged land vertebrates). The genus name, Tiktaalik, comes from the Inuktitut language

Encyclopedia Britannica
Show threadBashStKidMay 26, 2024
@EVDHmn @RickiTarr
Yes, I have a bit of background in palaeontology, with some zoology and genetics. Very much in a big dark cave with a small light (which is why you need to talk to all the other folks with lights!)
Show threadEveryday.Human DerekMay 26, 2024
@BashStKid @RickiTarr lol…yeah evbio and behavior ecology has what seems are like 10-15 majors to it. Luckily some overlap kinda sorta… then there’s philosophy