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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

Not only do we humans have a common ancestor with primates still living in trees, we have a common ancestor with the trees.

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Not only do we humans have a common ancestor with primates still living in trees, we have a common ancestor with the trees.

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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

No, I wasn’t stoned. This thought was inspired by the post the other day about how trees evolved independently (e: multiple times) from different plants, the product of convergent evolution.

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I was going to say one of them should have been 50 times removed but Randall got me in the alt text:

Grandma says that because of differences in primate and feline lifespans, the cat is actually my 17,000,000th cousin 14,000,000 times removed.

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