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prionassembly on June 18, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Brain-body allometry revisited across mammals

Your last paragraph is unnecessary to making your point — which is very good. We’re still overcommitted to tree-like “directed acyclic” mental models of evolution and life itself, despite convergent evolution (there are sea mammals?! there are sea mammals!!), epigenetics, horizontal gene transfer, wasp and orchid-type feature transfer…

wombatmobile on June 18, 2021 [–]

> Your last paragraph is unnecessary to making your point

Thanks for your comment about my comment.

Why do you think we're overcommitted to tree-like directed-acyclic mental modes of evolution?

lurquer on June 18, 2021 | [–]

The urge of (some) humans to rationalise their worldview in terms of woody perinneal plants?

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