Please cite sources for your meme.
(No seriously, I want to read them!)
this post was submitted on 23 Jan 2026
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Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about!?!?
Seriously it sounds interesting but I have no idea what the fuck you’re talking about, can you explain it to me like I’ve had a TBI?
Jesse is talking about where plant babies are coming from. Like, what came first the chicken or the egg. Well, what if "the egg" evolved two separate and unique times.
I.e, imagine that a few hundred million years ago there were no eggs. Like, chickens would just split in two and there'd be two chickens. Fast forward a bit and now that chicken lays eggs.
At the same time, there's a turtle, right. And turtles work differently, in order for them to reproduce, the turtle had to cut off a foot and bury it. But the foot would grow back, so no permanent harm. Well, over time, eventually, over thousands of generations, the turtle also lays eggs.
The two traits, though they are the same result (egg laying), took two different paths to arrive at the same solution.
It's called "convergent evolution". Same idea as how crabs evolved five different times. Five completely different family trees whose common ancestor is like a bacteria or something.
Idk I'm not a scientist, I'm just high. I could be way off.
Man you had me shaking my head in agreement, going oh I get it now right up until the last line. I really think we should have at least one sober person check in on us, because I think I understand it now and that’s dangerous.
I take issue with using a phylogeny as evidence, because a phylogeny is a hypothesis. Or maybe I'm an idiot and don't know what I'm talking about lol
This is how the meme should be used.
Fascinating! I've really enjoyed your posts today. Keep the hits coming!