Well what am I going to do with my pitchfork now?

I’VE HAD JUST ABOUT ENOUGH OF YOUR SHIT, SONNY!

“yeahitkindadoes”

It’s truly incredible and blows my mind trying to think about that defining moment or mutation(s) that enabled humans to become so advanced. Where do we even begin? Do humans have a greater capacity for social learning...combined with more natural discoveries. It all accumulates to an exponential scale.

The surgery I should have gotten in high school! Small world...

You could be right. Evolution generally favors those who do more for less. Assuming what ‘we’ have now is the more energy efficient of the mutations, then a restart of life from bacteria could yield similar results. However, a change of luck could allow for us to be able to talk with our mouths full and not choke...as…

I often think about this. I’ve heard claims that the dominance of mammals wouldn’t have happened (at least in the same way) without the dinosaurs going extinct.

I think that’s the beauty of evolution. Pure chance.

Uncanny valley, we meet again my old terrifying as fucking hell friend.

The late Stephen Jay Gould thought it was random. I’m not so sure, and how would you go about proving that, anyway? It’s interesting to speculate on, though.

The path isn’t totally random, because there are some persistent factors in our enviroment (temperature, presence of water, radiation from the sun, etc) that make more probable some process than others. Also, the more common is a gene across all species, the most probably it with survive.

But if all mammals disappear,…

But how does an E coli turn into a human being?

My mom tried to run me over with her car at Christmas and I have only spoken to her once since then. And somehow I feel like the piece of shit in this whole situation.

...as if this game didn’t already have enough reasons to get it.

And yet no one can figure out how to bolt on new, better engines to the B-52 (see Jalopnik).

Either this is the most subtle snark I’ve ever enjoyed or you’re being earnest and I feel bad that this is somehow an illustrative accomplishment of friendship.

This is beginning to goat out of hand.