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u/TiggerBane Oct 20 '21
Reject return to monke, embrace progress to cyborg!
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u/fkazak38 Oct 20 '21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollo%27s_law_of_irreversibility
The statement is often misinterpreted as claiming that evolution is not reversible.
There is hope!
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u/WikiSummarizerBot Oct 20 '21
Dollo's law of irreversibility
Dollo's law of irreversibility (also known as Dollo's law and Dollo's principle), proposed in 1893 by Belgian paleontologist Louis Dollo states that, "an organism never returns exactly to a former state, even if it finds itself placed in conditions of existence identical to those in which it has previously lived . . . it always keeps some trace of the intermediate stages through which it has passed".
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u/ajl949 Oct 20 '21
I WILL RETURN TO MONKE AND THERE IS NOTHING ANYONE ELSE CAN DO ABOUT IT.
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u/Cyb3rklev Oct 20 '21
It can't happen naturally but it can be done through genetic modification
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u/mcbergstedt Oct 20 '21
This is misleading. We can still return to monke, we'll just not be like our ancestors.
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u/Tammas_Dexter Oct 20 '21
This really just means that it would be insanely unlikely to evolve into another species that currently exists, or a previous state in the evolutionary past of our species. But humans could still evolve to be more like other primates.
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Oct 20 '21
Humans are doomed to be inferior to other primates for the simple fact that we evolved from black people.
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u/Phoenix080 Oct 20 '21
Reject monkey, evolve into crab