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Behold, a feathered biped
Plato is gonna be fuckin pissed
Between this, my stripes, and my tail… all things I have genes for, but no activation…
I’m kinda pissed, being human could be far less cringe
Humans do have stripes but we ourselves can’t see them.
Look up Blaschko lines
isn’t that only true for XX chromosome people?
I say this without doing any googling (big risk) but I’m pretty sure everyone has them - they’re the lines along which your skin originally formed in the womb. Or where your skin currently grows and migrates from. Or both. Maybe I should have googled lol
Unless you have the right skin condition I don’t think they’re visible in any wavelength
I’m good on the feathers I read the goosebumps book about learning to fly and it gave me a preview of my trypophobia when R.L. Stine described the feathers growing out of the main characters skin
ETA: it was “chicken chicken” not “how I learned to fly”
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I on the other hand am all that is man and will be taking the feathers because I want to look fabulous
Yeah, just leaves more plumage for me to dazzle the ladies with. Have fun not passing on your genes because i have the superior plumage.
Why would I dye my hair when plumage is an option?
Huh? I just read this book and that was not in there. The kids just drank a potion and then could fly, there was no outward difference to them. Maybe you are mixing up a different one, like the chicken one? We just started that so idk how it goes. The cover has the girl as a chicken though.
Ahh I checked the synopsis and you’re right I definitely got it mixed up with another. I need to find it now.
ETA:Definitely the chicken one jeez it just gave me goosebumps
My guess is they mean we have the genes to encode the proteins, since we have similar keratinized tissues like hair and nails. But probably not the hox genes to encode the structure
Well then put the box genes in me so I can have a damn plume
MF walking one way into getting a pile of teratomas
Stunning creatures, sea lions.
Wonderful plumage.
Fierce Creatures (1997)
There’s certainly something stunning and wonderful in that picture all right
I also have a thing for short guys in glasses!
Her shoes
This sounds like a fun PhD project
No funding. Less fun
TIL evolution is bad at deleting legacy code
We just comment it out in case we ever need it again.
I want the damn feathers for the social aspect! If we were allowed to preen each other, the world would be a better place!
we are allowed to preen each other, just start helping your friends and family with their haircuts
While we’re on the topic, we all have very slightly webbed digits, multiple involuntary reflexes for when we get wet, and a nasal/respiratory system that is (partially) adapted to swimming. I wonder how far our DNA could be pushed to pad out what was started here?
Our throat region seems poorly thought out. As somebody said recently, tube food goes in or you die is right next to tube food must never block or you die.
The fact that billions of us still get that right hundreds of times a day is honestly pretty fucking insane, with how delicate that whole setup is
Sometimes when I’m chewing a mouthful of food in the car it occurs to me that if I suddenly get in a wreck I will have no control over my gasp reflex.
Quick someone get CRSIPR therapy
What does that even mean, you have like “four letters” and dna strands of millions long. Like how selective do you have to be. I’m sure you can basically write anything that way.
Are there entire chunks that are inactive that would give feathers, that at some point gave feathers to our ancestors?
All things DNA is full of code that doesn’t get activated and is just passed on anyways
Gene expression is what they mean by “activated”
Basically think of it like having a library of instruction books and only grabbing a few of them to do the project that needs done.
I agree, this seems pretty misleading. And are there any other feathered animals other than on the dinosaur branch? Because if not, how should the feather DNA even end up in mammalian DNA?? Or maybe feathers are produced by very common differently used genes? But in this case this would be even more nonsensical…
I’ll settle for hair regrowth.
OTOH it would be kind of cool to look like the hawk man on the old Buck Rogers tv show.
Now go into a forrest with flint and boom
infinite ammo
Just need two chickens, a dispenser, and a redstone clock for infinite chickens
Is this true ? It doesn’t feel true with my current knowledge.
