• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    Once you’ve evolved it, one more or less is basically free *. Might fail sooner in old age, but everything after procreation is an afterthought.

    * my aunt has a long neck, 3 vertebras more.

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      2 days ago

      * my aunt has a long neck, 3 vertebras more.

      Apparently it’s really rare for mammals to evolve that without getting somthing else that’s really nasty like cancer. There was a recent video about it on SciShow or HanksChannel

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          23 hours ago

          I’m not trying to invalidate your experience. Just pointing out it’s apparently really rare. It’s theorized to be one of the pressures that results in all mammals having only 7 neck vertebrae, including guraffes