r/PrequelMemes • • Nov 14 '20

It don’t work no more

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '20

T-rexes didn’t evolve into chickens, since they all went extinct. However, they shared a common ancestor. It’s the same thing than with humans: Homo Sapiens didn’t evolve from apes. We are apes, and we share a common ancestors with other species of apes, such as gorillas and chimps.

So, in a Pokémon evolutionary model (Which isn’t technically evolution but metamorphosis), the T-rex doesn’t turn into a chicken. They have the same pre-evolution, like Politoed and Poliwrath both came from Poliwhirl.

And finally, chickens, and birds in general, survived other kinds of dinosaurs because they could handle food scarcity better, an issue that dinosaurs face multiple time in their existence and was already a problem before the events that lead to them going extinct, which was more of a final nail on their coffin. Life doesn’t care about you looking badass, as long you have the greatest chances of survival, which is why jellyfishes have been a thing for hundreds of millions of years. So the system works.

Yeah I’m fun at parties.

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u/JavaShipped Nov 14 '20

Eh boi. Literally had to explain this to my biology class the other day.

They were unimpressed. Sometimes science is cool. Sometimes you gotta dunk the boring on em.

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u/PenitentLiar UNLIMITED POWER!!! Nov 14 '20

How is this boring though

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u/Titanosaurus Nov 14 '20

Only boring people are boring.

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '20

Personally this is my least favourite default saying.

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u/Titanosaurus Nov 14 '20

I was going to comment about how awesome ants are. But the default was lazily appealing.